Welcome back to A Long Look! I’m so glad to be back and with a real treat! I’ll be spending Season 7 bringing you highlights from Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Carpaccio was an innovative visual storyteller at a time when Venice was a major power and the main crossroads between East and West. He specialized in enormous, colorful scenes of religious stories that would be displayed in order around the walls of a public room where a viewer would walk through them, like a life-size movie.
Carpaccio isn’t as well known here as some of his fellow Renaissance artists, like Titian, so it’s exciting to meet him in his first-ever retrospective outside Italy! Plus, we get to see a reunited artwork that was split in half 400 years ago, and learn about a hidden Jesus!
The exhibition opened on Nov. 20 and runs through Feb. 12, 2023. Check out https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html for more info.
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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas
“Gabrieli Canzon per sonar primi toni a 8, Ch. 170.” Performed by James Howard Young
https://musopen.org/music/43294-canzon-per-sonar-primi-toni-a-8-ch-170/
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