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St. Augustine in His Study (also called Vision of St. Augustine) is an oil and tempera on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio housed in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni of Venice, northern Italy. The painting depicts St. Augustine while he has a vision while sitting in a large room filled with objects.
Carpaccio was observed to have played with the vanishing point in his works. For example, in St. Jerome In His Study, the vanishing point is to the right of the center. [3] While he did still employ the traditional use of having the vanishing point be in the center, at times Carpaccio added a second vanishing point. [3]
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Saint Augustine in His Study may refer to: Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti)
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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.
The painting was commissioned for the Grand Hall of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, the seat of the eponymous brotherhood in Venice.The commission included a total of nine large canvasses by prominent artists of the time, including Gentile Bellini, Perugino, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Mansueti, Lazzaro Bastiani and Benedetto Rusconi.