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The MFA’s telling portrait of Christ

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 10, 2012

In the entire Museum of Fine Arts, there cannot be many pictures more compelling than this. It’s an unusual version of an old standby of Christian iconography, “Christ as the Man of Sorrows.” Everything about it forces your attention.

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