REUNITED 'WE KNEW INSTANTLY THAT IT WAS THE MISSING PIECE' A MASTERWORK IS RESTORED, AND A HISTORIC PUZZLE (PARTLY) SOLVED

The Boston Globe | March 28, 2004| | Copyright

In the 17th-century Bernardo Strozzi painting "Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene and Her Maid," one of the greatest Italian treasures in the Museum of Fine Arts, the saint looks up - but there's nothing there.

Even in 1972, when the MFA bought the painting, there was scholarly speculation that it was incomplete. The hunch was based on Strozzi's much larger version of the same subject, painted for a church in Venice. In that altarpiece, the saint is looking up at three pudgy putti, winged angelic figures hovering protectively overhead.

Did the MFA's Sebastian also once have the fluttering ...

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