Vittore Carpaccio (1460-66 –1525/26)

• Was an Italian painter of the Venetian school.
• He studied under Gentile Bellini.
• He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula.
• He was a pupil of Lazzaro Bastiani, who, like the Bellini and Vivarini, was the head of a large atelier in Venice.
• Carpaccio's late works were mostly done in the Venetian mainland territories, and in collaboration with his sons Benedetto and Piero.
• One of his pupils was Marco Marziale.
• Carpaccio completed three notable altarpieces for Venetian churches—St. Thomas Aquinas Enthroned, 1507, Presentation in the Temple, 1510, and Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, 1515.
• His last dated works are two organ shutters for the Duomo at Capodistria, 1523.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Carpaccio, The Virgin Reading, c. 1505.
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Vittore Carpaccio, Madonna and Child, c. 1505-1510

Original, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-2022.

Vittore Carpaccio, Madonna and Child, c. 1505-1510

Vittore Carpaccio, The Virgin Reading, c. 1505

Original, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-2022.

Vittore Carpaccio, The Virgin Reading, c. 1505

Vittore Carpaccio, Hunting on the Lagoon (recto), c. 1490-95

Original, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Visited in 2018.

Vittore Carpaccio, Hunting on the Lagoon [recto]; Letter Rack [verso], c. 1490-95

Original, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Visited in 2018.

Vittore Carpaccio, Hunting on the Lagoon (recto), c. 1490-95

Vittore Carpaccio, The Meditation on the Passion, 1490

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2021.

Vittore Carpaccio, The Meditation on the Passion, 1490

Vittore Carpaccio, The Burial of Christ, c. 1505

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Vittore Carpaccio, The Burial of Christ, c. 1505

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Vittore Carpaccio, The consecration of St. Stephen to the deacon, 1511

Vittore Carpaccio, The Burial of Christ, c. 1505

Vittore Carpaccio, St. Stephen’s Disputation with the Elders of the Sanhedrin, 1514

Original, Pinacoteka di Brera, Milan. Visited in 2019.

Vittore Carpaccio, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, 1502-04

Original, Pinacoteka di Brera, Milan. Visited in 2019.

Vittore Carpaccio, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, 1502-04

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preaching of St. Stephen, c. 1514

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preaching of St. Stephen, c. 1514

Vittore Carpaccio, Young Knight in a Landscape, 1505

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Vittore Carpaccio, Young Knight in a Landscape, 1505

OVittore Carpaccio, Holy Family with Donors, 1505

Original, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Visited in 2022.

Vittore Carpaccio, Holy Family with Donors, 1505