NOMA presents Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, a focused exhibition on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness and St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter. While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, has made them difficult to study. St. Jerome in the Wilderness has been exhibited outside the church only once — in 1939, in the Paolo Veronese exhibition at Ca’ Giustinian, in Venice — while St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter has not left since being installed there in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity for an international audience to discover these two masterpieces. Shown for the first time in Fall 2017 at the Frick Collection, NOMA is currently the only other US venue for this unique exhibition.

The two Veronese paintings from Murano, Venice, have been restored by Venetian Heritage with the support of BVLGARI, and their conservation was accompanied by thorough research into their history.