‘Tomb 10A’ lets you look history right in the face Oct 18, 2009
Thanks to steadily rising insurance and transportation costs, loan-heavy shows like the MFA s recent Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice are getting more and more difficult to mount. As a result, museum directors will have to draw on their permanent collections for temporary exhibitions. (Boston Globe)
* ART JOURNAL: Titian, rivals battle for market share in Louvre show Sep 23, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese X Rivalries in Venice, an exhibition at the Louvre, looks at the Venetian school of painting in the second half of the 16th century from the perspective of fierce competition for market share ... Jacopo Robusti (1518-94), nicknamed Tintoretto after his fathers profession of dyer (tintore), lasted only a few days in his studio before the older master kicked him out ... When Tintoretto started to make inroads into the Venetian market, Titians friend, the... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Blue ribbon for the curator, too Aug 16, 2009
Curator Frederick Ilchman looks back at the Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese exhibit - The Boston Globe ... Tonight the doors will close on galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts that have been home since March to 19 paintings by Titian, 18 by Tintoretto, and 17 by Veronese ... Nearly 30 couriers will arrive to take a total of 35 paintings from the blockbuster exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice to the Louvre in Paris, the show s second and final destination. (Boston Globe)
‘Dove/O’Keeffe’ exhibit shines at Clark Art Institute Jul 12, 2009
Like the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition about the rivalry between Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese in Venice, the works in Dove/O Keeffe are hung in discreet pairs or groups that largely disregard chronology to focus on common or contrasting themes and stylistic echoes. Interestingly, it s the first exhibition devoted to 20th-century art the Clark has ever mounted. (Boston Globe)
Exhibits highlight two great colorists' different methods Apr 12, 2009
Of course, as visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts show "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," which includes "Dana?," will have noticed, an allegiance to "colorito" did not necessarily amount to painting in bright colors ... Where Veronese favored lighter, pastel hues - gorgeously day-lit oranges, blues, pinks, and greens - his rival Tintoretto had a more penumbral bent: His greens were dark and cool, he adored black, and he was incredibly bold in his use of shadow. (Boston Globe)
Art Returned To Heirs Of Holocaust Victims Apr 11, 2009
Another is a portrait of nobleman Alvise Vendramin that is attributed to the school of another Venetian master, Jacopo Tintoretto. Both were hung in the Italian style Doge Suite, where newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst put his most famed visitors, including Winston Churchill and President Calvin Coolidge. (KSBW 8, CA)
Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas Apr 11, 2009
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. (Time.com)
Hearst Castle paintings given to owners' heirs Apr 11, 2009
The Venetian paintings that were returned are "Portrait of Alvise Vendramin," attributed to the school of Jacopo Tintoretto, and "Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman," credited to the school of Giovanni Cariani ... Hearst placed the Tintoretto and Cariani in the Doge Suite in the newspaper tycoon's opulent 165-room home in San Simeon in September 1935. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Visiting the Art Gallery of Ontario Apr 10, 2009
Taking a 25 minute Mini Tour through the Italian Baroque gallery with Virgina, the discovery is Jacopo Tintoretto s brilliant brush work in the painting Christ Washing His Disciples Feet. Tintoretto painted fast, she points out look at the single brush strokes in the clothing. (Suite101.com)
3 Nazi-confiscated works found at Hearst Castle Apr 9, 2009
Two paintings - "Portrait of Alvise Vendramin," attributed to Jacopo Tintoretto, and a painting known as "Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman," credited to Giovanni Cariani - will be returned Friday to Peter Bloch of Boynton Beach, Fla ... Hearst, who evidently did not know about the tainted history of the paintings, placed the Tintoretto and Cariani in the Doge Suite in September 1935. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A tale of three paintings Mar 30, 2009
The Titian (left), the Tintoretto, and the Veronese ... IN ARTNEWS, FREDERICK Ilchman, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, walks readers through one example of how the rivalry among the three subjects of the MFA s current exhibition, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, played itself out ... In contrast, Tintoretto, who took on the same subject circa 1542, while in his mid-20s a young Turk relative to Titian puts his own spin on things, almost literally: The table is askew, the composition arranged... (Boston Globe)
Venetian finds Mar 16, 2009
This colorful world is yours for the soaking at the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice." The 56 works on loan from museums and Venetian churches are explored in seven sections, including "The Transformation of Venetian Painting Around 1500," "The Three Protagonists," "Sacred Themes," "Mythology and the Female Nude," and "Portraiture." Today from 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. (through Aug. 16). Ticketed admission at half-hour intervals is $25, $23 students... (Boston Globe)
Renaissance Art Exhibitions 2009 Mar 15, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. The exhibition of approximately 60 works is a study of the three painters' artistic rivalries and a distinctly Venetian style of painting in 16th-century Italy through a careful examination of their allegorical, mythological and religious compositions as well as portraits commissioned by domestic and foreign patrons. (Suite101.com)
Critic's picks - visual arts Mar 15, 2009
TITIAN, TINTORETTO, VERONESE: RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE. A stunning show matching up masterpieces by Titian with wonderful works by the two leading artists of the next generation, Tintoretto and Veronese. (Boston Globe)
Ready to show their stuff Mar 9, 2009
The shindig, to celebrate the opening of the MFA's new exhibit "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese," attracted more than 1,300 people, including a certain two-time Oscar nominated actor who calls Cambridge home. Yes, John Malkovich and his significant other Nicoletta Peyran toured the exhibit and talked briefly with Rogers. (Boston Globe)
Unlocking the secret of beautiful design with mathematics Feb 22, 2009
ricault, a study of a sculpture of Atlas by Tintoretto, and a stormy depiction of a city under siege by the Dutchman Dirk Langendijk. But none of these beautiful objects, many of which Brock has generously promised to the MFA (where he is on the board of overseers), seems to have as much grip on his imagination as his theory of beautiful design. (Boston Globe)
