David Alan Brown was the former Curator of Italian Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, for more than four decades. He organized many loan exhibitions, including Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting (1979), Raphael and America (1983), Titian, Prince of Painters (1991), Lorenzo Lotto (1997), Virtue and Beauty: Renaissance Portraits of Women (2001), Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (2006). Brown’s monograph on Andrea Solario earned him the Salimbeni Prize in 1987, while his study Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius won the Sir Bannister Fletcher Award in 2000. Brown was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy in 2003. His most recent book is Giovanni Bellini: The Last Works (2019).