Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
Salomon, Xavier F![Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/433/43396666/CHSBZCOP0343396666.jpg)
The Three Philosophers" by Giorgione (ca. 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 suggests that between at least 1525 and 1556 the two paintings were displayed in the same house in Venice, the palazzo of Taddeo Contarini (ca. 1466-1540), a member of one...