Art Review: Venice at NYC's Museum of Biblical Art

"The Man of Sorrows" by Michele Giambono

NEW YORK - The only thing wrong with “Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese,” a fascinating exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art, is the title. The show is not about old masters but about an archetypal image: that of Jesus as the Man of Sorrows, in which he is typically seen from the waist up with arms crossed over his stomach, so you can see the bleeding nail wounds in his hands. The Man of Sorrows fell out of fashion in the mid-17th century as humanist empiricism eclipsed orthodox faith as the driving force of European collective imagination. But he has lived on in other guises. “Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese” runs through June 12 at the Museum of Biblical Art. [Source: NYT]