Vittore
Carpaccio
Italy, Renaissance
Born 1450 - died 1525CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c.1465—c.1522), Italian painter, was born in Venice, of an old Venetian family. The facts of his life are obscure, but his principal works were executed between 1490 and 1519; and he ranks as one of the finest precursors of the great Venetian masters. The date of his birth is conjectural. He is first mentioned in 1472 in a will of his uncle Fra Ilario, and Dr Ludwig infers from this that he was born c.1455, on the ground that no one could enter into an inheritance under the age of fifteen; but the inference ignores the possibility of a testator making his will in prospect of the beneficiary attaining his legal age. Consideration of the youthful style of his earliest dated pictures (St Ursula series,Venice, 1490) makes it improbable that at that time he had reached so mature an age as thirty-five; and the date of his birth is more probably to be guessed from his being about twenty-five in 1490. What is certain is that he was a pupil (not, as sometimes thought, the master) of Lazzaro Bastiani, who, like the Bellini and Vivarini, was the head of a large atelier in Venice, and whose own work is seen in such pictures as the S. Veneranda at Vienna, and the Doge Mocenigo kneeling before the Virgin and Madonna and Child (formerly attributed to Carpaccio) in the National Gallery, London. In later years Carpaccio appears to have been influenced by Cima da Conegliano (e.g. in the Death of the Virgin, 1508, at Ferrara). Apart from the St Ursula series, his scattered series of the Life of the Virgin and Life of St Stephen, and a Dead Christ atBerlin, may be specially mentioned.
The Dead Christ
c.1520Tempera on canvas
57.09 x 72.83 inches / 145 x 185 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
The Stoning of St. Stephen
1520Tempera on canvas
55.91 x 66.93 inches / 142 x 170 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
St George and the Dragon
1516Oil on canvas
70.87 x 88.98 inches / 180 x 226 cm
S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
The Lion of St Mark
1516Tempera on canvas
51.18 x 144.88 inches / 130 x 368 cm
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
Disputation of St. Stephen
1514Tempera on canvas
57.87 x 67.72 inches / 147 x 172 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
The Sermon of St. Stephen
1514Tempera on canvas
59.84 x 76.77 inches / 152 x 195 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
St. Stephen is Consecrated Deacon
1511Tempera on canvas
58.27 x 90.94 inches / 148 x 231 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Portrait of a Knight
1510Tempera on canvas
85.83 x 59.84 inches / 218 x 152 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
1510Tempera on panel
165.75 x 92.91 inches / 421 x 236 cm
Gallerie dell"Accademia, Venice, Italy
The Meditation on the Passion
c.1510Oil and tempera on wood
27.76 x 34.13 inches / 70.5 x 86.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York, USA
Holy Conversation
c.1505Tempera on canvas
36.22 x 49.61 inches / 92 x 126 cm
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, France
Funeral of St. Jerome
1502 - 1507Tempera on canvas
55.51 x 83.07 inches / 141 x 211 cm
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni,Venice,Italy
The Baptism of the Selenites
1502 - 1507Tempera on canvas
55.51 x 112.20 inches / 141 x 285 cm
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni,Venice,Italy
The Daughter of Emperor Gordian is exorcised by St. Triphun
1502 - 1507Tempera on canvas
55.51 x 118.11 inches / 141 x 300 cm
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni,Venice,Italy
The Triumph of St George
1502Drawing
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
The Triumph of St. George
1502 - 1507Tempera on canvas
55.51 x 141.73 inches / 141 x 360 cm
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni,Venice,Italy
The Ambassadors Depart
1495 - 1500Oil on canvas
110.24 x 99.61 inches / 280 x 253 cm
Gallerie dell"Accademia, Venice, Italy
