This talk will provide an introduction to the exhibition on Vittore Carpaccio, due to open at the National Gallery of Art on November 20, 2022, and then transfer to the Doge’s Palace, Venice, in the spring of 2023. The talk will focus on the paintings (and their preparatory drawings) to be shown in Washington, most of which were originally intended to be viewed in domestic rather than public spaces.

*Because of an unexpected medical issue, this talk will be presented by Dr. Frederick Ilchman, Save Venice Chairman and Chair, Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on behalf of Prof. Peter Humfrey

Peter Humfrey is Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and is Guest Curator of the Carpaccio exhibition and editor of the catalogue. He is a leading authority on Venetian painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and has published extensively on this topic.

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