The exhibition "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice," at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has opened. The exhibition focuses on the figure of Vittore Carpaccio, a Renaissance artist who lived in Venice between the 15th and 16th centuries, and is part of our all-out effort to promote the masters of Italian painting to the American public.

The major exhibition, featuring some 45 paintings and 30 drawings by Carpaccio, is the result of a collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and has been curated by Peter Humfrey, a scholar of Venetian painting and professor emeritus of art history at the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with Andrea Bellieni, curator of the Musei Civici di Venezia, and Gretchen Hirschauer, curator of Italian and Spanish painting at the National Gallery of Art.