Upcoming Release: Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
October 6 2023
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director of the Frick Collection, has a new book coming out next month. Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini is the latest in the series of publications organised in association with the Frick Collection, which explores a theme in relation to one of the collection's masterpieces and accompanies a display which will open on 9th November 2023.
According to the book's blurb on the publisher's website:
The Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477–1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1424/35–1516) in The Frick Collection are two of the most celebrated paintings of the Venetian Renaissance. Documentation exists to suggest that, between at least 1525 and 1556, the two paintings were displayed together in the same house in Venice, the palazzo of Taddeo Contarini (ca. 1466–1540), a member of one of Venice’s wealthiest patrician families. For the first time in more than four hundred years these two masterpieces will be reunited. Accompanying their display at the Frick, this book explores the origins of the paintings and re-evaluates their histories in the collection of Taddeo Contarini.
