Art: Luster for Cleveland

The Cleveland Museum is celebrating its 35th anniversary, the hard way, with a well-calculated buying spree. Since the first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto’s Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese’s The Annunciation, Tintoretto’s magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation’s best.