Overview: 80 paintings, drawings, and prints were selected to show the work of Venetian Renaissance artists and their influence on other European artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. Works by Giorgione, Titian, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and others were included.

Organization: The works were selected by Robert Cafritz and Sir Lawrence Gowing at the Phillips Collection with David Rosand of Columbia University. Beverly Louise Brown was coordinator at the National Gallery. Brown and Sydney Freedberg designed the exhibition. In association with this exhibition, The Modern Vision was held at the Phillips Collection to show the work of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sponsor: The exhibition was supported by grants from Ford Motor Company and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, with additional assistance from the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.