Anyone who has spent time wandering around the churches of Venice will have imbibed the name of Cima da Conegliano (c.1459-c.1517), whose saints and madonnas pose against a background of bright cerulean skies and breathtaking landscapes, dominated by distant hill towns to which the eye wanders as if yearning to pay them a visit. This summer an exhibition in Cima’s home town will be setting the artist in the context of his place and time, and looking across the range of artistic production in sixteenth-century Conegliano and its environs. Among the pictures on display is this one by Domenico Capriolo of a studious young man with a book–the book itself beautifully rendered, a learned folio with text and commentary, decorated letters and rubrications. You can’t read the words, but you can’t help wondering what that chubby finger is pointing out.