Xavier F. Salomon

Painting of man in white garb stretching between two women in dresses
Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
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The art of Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) is inextricably linked to the idea of opulence and splendor in Renaissance Venice. His paintings are grandiose visions of the richness and spectacle of sixteenth-century Venetian life.

Oil painting of a young girl leaning out a window sill.
Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings.

Xavier F. Salomon and Armando Varricchio
Italy Names Xavier F. Salomon Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d'Italia
St. Jerome in the wilderness
Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored
Image of Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, with and angel and a devil
Cagnacci’s Masterpiece The Repentant Magdalene Comes to the Frick this Fall
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Xavier F. Salomon Appointed Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection
Painting of man in white garb stretching between two women in dresses
Stunning and Unique Opportunity to View Allegories by Veronese Together - Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice April 11, 2006, through July 16, 2006
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A New Old Home

Round out your sneak peek into the Frick’s second floor in our latest behind-the-scenes video! Live from the renovation site, Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, explores three new galleries: the medals room, the gold-ground paintings room, and the Walnut Room. Originally domestic spaces of the Frick family and later staff spaces, all of these rooms will—for the first time—be open to the public and showcase important small-scale paintings and sculptures.

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Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini

Learn about Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini, the final special presentation at our temporary home, Frick Madison. On view through February 4, 2024, this installation reunites—for the first time in some four hundred years—the Frick’s St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini with Giorgione’s Three Philosophers, on rare loan from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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Where in the World? Ultramarine

In the final episode of the series, Curator Aimee Ng is joined by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, to explore ultramarine, the world’s most expensive pigment. The rich blue color appears in the Frick’s Coronation of the Virgin by Paolo and Giovanni Veneziano and in paintings made centuries later by Johannes Vermeer.