Rediscovering Venetian Renaissance Painting was the closing event of several associated with the exhibition Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, June 18–September 17, 2006. Previous events included a Robert H. Smith Curatorial/Conservation Colloquy entitled Venetian Underdrawing at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Among the participants were Paolo Spezzani, X-ray and infrared specialist from Venice; Jill Dunkerton, conservator from London National Gallery; Barbara Berrie and Elizabeth Walmsley of the Washington National Gallery; and Carmen Bambach, curator of the Metropolitan Museum Drawing Department. On September 10 Juergen Schulz and Deborah Howard delivered public lectures at the National Gallery on the Barbari map of Venice, and on September 15 the Italian Embassy held an all-day conference on Italian history. Curator David Alan Brown opened the Rediscovering Venetian Renaissance Painting symposium Saturday morning, expressing the hope that it would build from and expand the material of the show itself. He articulated the guiding concept of the exhibition and its installation: to focus on a 30-year period, 1500–30, and to organize the material thematically in order to see relationships among contemporary artists and works. The talks that followed...