Save Venice Trustee and Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, Xavier F. Salomon, takes members on a private after-hours exhibition tour of Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini. On rare loan this fall and winter from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, Giorgione’s Three Philosophers joins the Frick’s beloved Bellini panel St. Francis in the Desert, providing an unprecedented opportunity for audiences to see the pair of paintings in dialogue. The two works were owned by the same Venetian collector, Taddeo Contarini, perhaps as pendants, and were displayed for many decades in his palazzo before their separation four centuries ago. 

Led by Dr. Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator

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Image: Giovanni Bellini (Italian, ca. 1424 or 1435–1516), St. Francis in the Desert, ca. 1475–80. Oil on panel, 49 1/16 x 55 7/8 in. (124.6 x 142 cm). The Frick Collection, New York