Education & Enrichment Series | Standing at the Threshold: Carpaccio's Saint Matthew Reconsidered

Presented by Gabriele Matino and Valentina Piovan
Building upon new visual and documentary evidence that emerged from the recent conservation of Carpaccio’s Calling of Saint Matthew, art historian Gabriele Matino argues that Carpaccio painted the tax collector Matthew not as a Jewish moneylender, as previously assumed, but as a Venetian moneychanger within his workplace, a banco de tapeto that once faced Campo San Giacomo at Rialto in Venice.
Conservator Valentina Piovan discusses conservation methodology with the objective of understanding Carpaccio’s compositional technique. Comparing historical documents and recent sources to technical evidence from chemical and physical diagnostics, conducted on the painting before and during conservation treatment, has led to a new reading of the picture in light of its conservation history.
Previously recorded on April 29, 2021.
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