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Vittore Carpaccio
(c.1455/65-1525/26)
Neither the date of Capriccio's birth nor
the date of Vittore Carpaccio’s death are
known precisely. TVittore Carpaccio’s master
was born in Venice c. 1455/60. Vittore
Carpaccio’s first known works, however, do
not appear until 1490, the date on one of
the canvases in the cycle illustrating the
Legend of Saint Ursula for the Scuola di S.
Orsola. The cycle was completed by 1495; the
life and times of the saint are used as a
pretext for an imaginary reconstruction of
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TVittore Carpaccio’s most famous group of
paintings by Carpaccio with crowds of people
in exquisite clothes and wonderful
architecture in the background evokes the
magical charm of the city. In these works
“the probable influences of Vittore
Carpaccio’s training (Gentile Bellini’s
feeling for narrative, Antonello da
Messina’s sense of space, Alvise Vivarini’s
precise use of light, the clear-cut graphics
of the Ferrarese) appear to have been
superseded by a style that is increasingly
confident and personal.” (Carpaccio. By
Stefano Zuffi. Electa, Italy. 1996)
Between 1502 and 1507 Carpaccio worked on a
cycle of canvases for the Scuola di
S.Giorgio degli Schiavoni, with the story of
St. George and the dragon and episodes from
the life of St. Jerome. |
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Between 1511 and 1514 Vittore Carpaccio executed the
paintings based on the life of St. Stephen
in the Scuola di S. Stefano. Carpaccio also
received a number of commissions from
Venice's government, but after Vittore
Carpaccio’s altarpiece for the church of S.
Vitale, Vittore Carpaccio’s Venetian career
foundered, partly because by then Titian
dominated the scene.
Carpaccio ended Vittore Carpaccio’s career
back in the provinces (Bergamo, Cadore,
Istria) where Vittore Carpaccio’s now
out-dated style still attracted admirers.
Vittore Carpaccio was forgotten for many centuries to come to
be rediscovered in the 19th century. Now
Carpaccio ranks second only to Giovanni
Bellini among Venetian fifteenth-century
artists. |
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