John Barry says that in the last days of World War II, his great-grandfather, a prominent German art historian, lost a massive painting of the 16th-century sea battle at Lepanto. By Colin Moynihan In ...

The painting that is now a horizontal nativity was once a vertical crucifixion. "It's not uncommon to X-ray a painting and find a completely different subject underneath," said Ilchman, a specialist ...

Last month I asked the question “is Tintoretto the greatest“? Over the weekend, in the Wall Street Journal, I made the case for Tintoretto’s religious paintings in the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.

Tintoretto (1518-94) came in the last wave of the Italian Renaissance. A bit overshadowed in art history by Titian, the supremely talented local elder, Tintoretto is famous but may not register as ...

Titian, Tintoretto, VeroneseThe LouvreSeptember 17-January 4, 2010 The 16th century--the Cinquecento--marks the golden age of Venetian painting. Today the canvases of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese ...

I just submitted an article for the Wall Street Journal’s ’masterpiece’ column on the subject of Tintoretto, the sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Here I make the argument that in his monumental ...

On a still, hot day in August, I’m snaking through Venice in a water taxi, gliding between the moored boats bobbing on its quiet canals. I’m dropped off at the edge of Cannaregio, at the steps of an ...