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St. Augustine is pictured sitting in his Italian studiolo, or a study that is a private cabinet or room. [2] These studies, also known as kunstkammer, wunderkammer or cabinets of curiosities, were typically used to display collectors items, and became popular in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [2]
Saint Augustine in His Study. Shortly after the year 1502, Vittore Carpaccio's Saint Augustine in His Study was painted and signed with the inscription: VICTOR / CARPATHIVS / FINGEBAT. [13] The artist situates the saint in an idealized interior domestic space, alluding to contemporary practices in the art of collecting during the Renaissance ...
Externally, over the entrance is a relief with St. George Killing the Dragon (1552), by Pietro di Salò and, above it, a "Virgin Enthroned with Saints" (mid-14th century) by a Venetian sculptor. The ground hall has on its four walls the paintings commissioned to Carpaccio, inspired by Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend: St. Augustine in His Study
Vittore Carpaccio’s “Saint Augustine in His Study” showed the architect how rooms, both real and imagined, can create moments of awe.
It portrays Augustine of Hippo in meditation inside his study. The precise subject is a legend, probably first found in the 13th century, of a vision Augustine had as he began to write a letter to Jerome in his study at Hippo in 420. The time is shown on the clock by his head as the end of the twenty-fourth hour, counting from the previous sunset.
Saint Augustine (Pinturicchio) Saint Augustine Altarpiece (Huguet) Saint Augustine and Alypius Receiving Ponticianus; Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) Saint Augustine's Vision of the Christ-Child by a River; San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece
St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) St. George and the Dragon (Carpaccio) The Sermon of St. Stephen (Carpaccio) T. Two Venetian Ladies; Y.
Saint Augustine in His Study may refer to: Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti)