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Slideshow: X-ray reveals secrets of Tintoretto's painting

â€œTitian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Veniceâ€ at the MFA.

By GREG COOK | March 19, 2009

Jacopo Tintorettoâ€™s painting Nativity, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, has long puzzled scholars because of its odd composition. As the museum reports, people wondered: â€œWhy is only one of the major figures looking directly at the baby Jesus, who should be the center of attention in a nativity? Why does the woman at right have her arms flung out so dramatically, more a gesture of shock or alarm than joy? What is the old man above her looking at?â€ Could X-rays reveal the answers?
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Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Â
Three's company
The show's American curator, Frederick Ilchman, has snagged an improbable number of pairs and trios from the world's famous (and not so famous) museums.
More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
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Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Â
Three's company
The show's American curator, Frederick Ilchman, has snagged an improbable number of pairs and trios from the world's famous (and not so famous) museums.
More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
Splendor on the screen
The arc of Elia Kazan's professional life has its origins in the Group Theatre, where he was trained as an actor and performed in the original 1930s productions of Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy .
Review: And Then Came Lola
Was the world clamoring for a comic-erotic lesbian tribute to Run Lola Run?
Mostly noir
The definition of film noir has become elastic through the years. Of the five movies included in the MFAâ€™s series â€œRialtoâ€™s Best of British Film Noirâ€ only two, strictly speaking, are noirs: Brighton Rock, Graham Greene & Terence Rattiganâ€™s adaptation of Greeneâ€™s novel, and The Third Man, Greeneâ€™s most famous collaboration with the filmmaker Carol Reed.
The museum-building boom continues
What's happening at the Gardner and at Harvard
2009: The year in art
The year started off with a kick in the teeth when, in January, Brandeis University announced plans to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell off its masterpieces.
The rules of his game
Given that every theater season seems to bring a new production of a Chekhov play, it's surprising that so few movies have been made of his dramas, or of his short stories. Or maybe not so surprising: Chekhov is perilously difficult for filmmakers.
Bon appÃ©tit!
Luis MelÃ©ndez himself greets you at the outset of "Luis MelÃ©ndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life" at the Museum of Fine Arts. He seems a haughty 31-year-old in this 1746 self-portrait, standing in a fine silk coat and ruffled shirt and holding up a chalk drawing (note the chalk in his hand) of a hunky nude dude.
Photos: Taking Back Sunday at the MFA
Taking Back Sunday performs at the Museum of Fine Arts for a WFNX Acoustic Session on July 20, 2011.
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