Kawase Yusuke is curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. He studied Art History at Tokyo University of Arts and at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Before joining his current institution, he received the Theodore Rousseau Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as associate curator at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum. His main field of research is seventeenth-century Spanish and Italian art. He has organised various exhibitions, including Caravaggio and his Time: Friends, Rivals and Enemies (2016).