Word: tintorettos
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...liked. On a trip to Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...second Quincy Adams Shaw, offered it to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts four years ago. Museum officials could not bring themselves to refuse the picture, or to hang it either. It was wide as a barn door, and looked far too dull and dark for a genuine Tintoretto. They stored it in the cellar...
When it was done, the astonished officials saw a rich, bright picture that had undeniably been painted in Tintoretto's exuberant style. For Tintoretto, the composition was curiously static and as flatly arranged as a department-store window. But the figures were brilliantly conceived. "It's a corker," crowed Museum Director George Edgell. "I don't think I've ever seen so lovely a Virgin...
...gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite in Manhattan...