During his meteoric career, Titian (1488/90–1576) created some of the most revolutionary paintings of the Renaissance, making him the most celebrated Italian painter of his time. Over the past fifty years, Save Venice has restored several of his masterpieces. Titian & Save Venice: Conserving Six Masterpieces presents surprising discoveries from these conservation campaigns, offering fresh perspectives on the artist’s creative process and technique. Save Venice members are invited to attend an illustrated conversation between the editors of the forthcoming publication, Dr. Davide Gasparotto and Dr. Gabriele Matino.

Presented by Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings, Getty Museum; and Dr. Gabriele Matino, Senior Researcher, Save Venice

Davide Gasparotto is Senior Curator and Head of the Paintings Department, and Chair, Curatorial Affairs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is also currently Chair of the Educational Resources Committee of the Save Venice Board of Directors. A native of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, he was previously the Director of the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro (1996-98), and a curator at the National Gallery of Parma from 1999 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 he was Director of the Galleria Estense in Modena. He was a Francis A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute, London (1999), Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2007), and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011-2012). At the Getty, he organized several acclaimed exhibitions such as Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (2017-18), Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters (2019), and Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye (2023). 

Gabriele Matino is Senior Researcher at Save Venice and an independent curator. An expert in Venetian Renaissance art, he holds an MA from Ca’ Foscari University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham. His collaboration with Save Venice began in 2016, when he received the Save Venice Curatorial Fellowship to organize the exhibition Art, Faith, and Medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice at the Scuola Grande di San Marco (2018). Since then, he has authored Carpaccio in Venice: Itineraries (2020), co-edited with board member Patricia Fortini Brown; contributed to The Church of San Sebastiano in Venice: A Guide (2024), co-authored with board members Xavier F. Salomon and Davide Gasparotto, and the Director of the Venice office Melissa Conn; and developed Assunta Restored (2025), a website dedicated to Titian’s altarpiece and its conservation by Save Venice. His latest project is a volume co-edited with Gasparotto, highlighting Save Venice’s restoration of Titian’s six masterpieces.