If you always wondered, the answer is yes: The elegant appetizer known as carpaccio (sliced raw beef dressed with olive oil and lemon juice, but not too much) was named for Vittore Carpaccio, the 16th-century Venetian painter.
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone takes over the beaux-arts halls of the Petit Palais, Paris with a monumental film installation and sculptures of trapeze dancers