Painted gold, which makes icons shine with spiritual light, is the protagonist of the exhibition at the Doge's Palace, curated by the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Musei Civici Chiara Squarcina, the manager of the Museo Correr Andrea Bellieni and the General Director of the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens Katerina Dellaporta; it provides the backdrop to a long history of intense pictorial relations between the two islands.