Art: The Renaissance's Big Men on Canvas

venice art paintings Tintoretto Veronese Vincenzo Mosti Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Rivals in Renaissance Venice A new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts charts the competition
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Veronese, Supper at Emmaus, mid-1570s
It fell to Veronese in the mid-1570s to reconcile the two approaches. His Supper has more gestural drama than Titian's — arms are flung outward, one apostle's jaw drops. But because most of the figures are turned inwards towards Christ, the picture has the coherence and structural integrity that Tintoretto's lacks.

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