Laura Gilbert reviews the exhibition Bellini, Titian, Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, on view through September 3, 2012.

Gilbert writes: "There's a dead Christ with the Virgin Mary and St. John by the great Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini — emotional and simply yet subtly colored — and a mythological scene that some think is an early Titian. But the excitement in this small show is in discovering great works by artists who are obscure compared to those titans," including Moretto da Brescia, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Bergognone, Vincenzo Foppa, Giovanni Cariani, Bartolomeo Montagna, and Andrea Previtali.