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...after the Chicago Institute announced its discovery, the Courtauld Institute announced in London that it had found an answer to an older puzzle. Among the paintings owned by Queen Elizabeth is one attributed to Titian, titled Titian and Friend. For generations scholars have been troubled by the disturbing blank area at the right of the painting. Placing it under X ray, the London institute discovered a long-suspected third figure, a man younger than the others. Experts have guessed that Titian's first friend was Venetian Grand Chancellor Andrea dei Franceschi, but Friend No. 2, and the reasons...
...Ferrara. One of the most impressive feats of art sleuthing by X ray is reported by John Walker, director of Washington's , National Gallery, in his book, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara (Phaidon; $6.50). Sleuth Walker tackled one of the world's great masterpieces, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods (see color page), now at the National Gallery, managed to prove through X rays what no scholar could hope to do with the naked...
...Capodimonte National Museum (see color page), an 18th century palace outside Naples that was built for the Bourbon kings in 1738 and reopened only last year as a treasure-filled art museum-100 galleries lined with canvases by such old masters as Bruegel, Goya, Mantegna, Masaccio and Titian. In converting the palace, Naples' Art Director Bruno Molajoli faced not only the staggering task of cleaning and identifying some 600 stored paintings (including two Correggios found in a case marked "rubbish"), but also laying out a modern, well-lighted museum...
...glass wool sandwiched between sheets of glass to diffuse it evenly over the pictures. Artificial light concealed above the translucent ceiling panels supplements the natural light. To finish off the galleries, now filled with a steady, shadowless illumination, the floors were paved with contrasting Carrara marble (in the Titian Room) or left with plain, unwaxed brick...
...where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...