Word: titian
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...powerfully gifted men set the art of painting on a new course while engaging each other in an intricate call-and-response, some of it admiring, some of it anything but. The complex dynamic of that decades-long game is charted with authority and lots of cinquencento dazzle in "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," an abundant show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Conceived and co-organized by Frederick Ilchman, a Boston MFA curator, with Jean Habert of the Louvre, it runs through August 16 then moves to Paris, its only other venue. (See pictures...
...less raucous outing, an exhibit of Venetian Renaissance maestros Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese opens Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts. Quite the smorgasbord, with almost 20 paintings by each. (MFA is open 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Sa-Tu, 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m. W-F; $15 with student ID, free Weds. after...
...Dynasty of Art. The name Wyeth is familiar to almost every kid who ever had a library card, because it belongs to the most ambitious American art dynasty since the 18th century Philadelphia painter Charles Willson Peale named his children Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphaelle and Titian and brought two of them up to join a raft of relatives in the family trade. The Wyeth dynasty was founded when Newell Converse Wyeth went in 1903 from Massachusetts to Wilmington, Del., to study painting with the scholarly illustrator Howard Pyle. Often Pyle and his favorite pupil would journey the twelve miles...
...them. The photos you published show no resemblance between his works and the ones they are supposedly copied from. The article ends by quoting Picasso's remark that "art has neither a past nor a future." A quotation more revealing of Picasso's attitude to art might have been: "Titian and Rembrandt were great painters: I am only a public entertainer who has understood...the imbecility, the vanity, the stupidity of his contemporaries." Having fooled a generation of "masters and critics," as he called them, Picasso was no longer able to fool himself. Ian Macdonald, Sydney...
...produce catalogues and other research for them. The lending policy isn't limitless, either: earlier this year the Louvre pulled out of a show that a private promoter was mounting in Verona, Italy. The Louvre would have received $6.4 million for loaning various famous pictures, including portraits by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, but the idea of working on a commercial basis with a private operator caused concern among some curators. When the promoter changed the venue, Loyrette withdrew...