Venetian painters at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Kill two birds with one stone: Visit the Louvre Museum in the City of Light to see a big new exhibition about La Serenissima.

“Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice” (open through Jan. 4 in the Hall of Napoleon) examines three great 16th-century Italian artists who made their homes in the Lagoon City:

Titian learned from Venetian masters such as Bellini and Giorgione. Tintoretto, a Venice homeboy, was  always at odds with Titian, his senior by about 30 years. The  divine Veronese crossed hairs with the Inquisition over his placement of dogs and dwarfs in religious pictures such as “Feast in the House of Levi.”

Masterpieces on display include Titian’s lackadaisical nude “Danae” from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, a Tintoretto self-portrait from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the striking “Temptation of St. Anthony” by Veronese from the Caen Museum of Beaux-Arts.

— Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times staff writer

Photo: “Venus with a Mirror” by Paolo Veronese. Credit: Courtesy of  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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