A Saint Jerome and a Saint Agatha by Paolo Veronese have since Thursday been sharing a New York City roof with two other monumental paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist.Recently restored, the two large paintings with elaborate gilded frames had never before left Italy and will be exhibited at the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue.

"Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored" focuses on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), 'Saint Jerome in the Wilderness' and 'Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison'. The paintings are part of a five-painting commission - three of which have been lost - ordered in the mid-sixteenth century by an obscure Murano chaplain, Francesco Degli Arbori, to decorate a small private church annexed to the St Mary of the Angels monastery.