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Similarly, in Giorgio Vasari's 1568 series Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori (The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects), Carpaccio appeared at the forefront of a list of Venetian painters. [footnotes 2] This decision distinguished his artistic reputation from other painters in northern Italy ...
Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing.
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.
This painting is dated 1490, and is the first executed by Carpaccio for the cycle. It describes the arrival of the pilgrims, accompanied by the Pope, at Cologne , then under siege by the Huns . The banners over the tower, red-white with three golden crowns, are those of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II , the main Venetian enemy during Carpaccio's life.
Vittore Carpaccio's Saint George and the Dragon was part of a painting cycle that was commissioned in 1502 by the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.The Schiavoni (meaning "Slavs" in the Venetian dialect and referred specifically to the Dalmatians from the Dalmatia region of modern day Croatia) commissioned the Scuola deli Cycle during the time of the Ottoman wars in Europe. [1]
Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (c. 1489–1576), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Paolo ...
The Sermon of Saint Stephen is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian artist Vittore Carpaccio, done in 1514. The painting is from the Venetian Renaissance and depicts the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen, giving a sermon. The painting involves its audience as active witnesses to St. Stephen's actions and influence.
The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Vittore Carpaccio, a painter of the Venetian School and student of Gentile Bellini. The latter also painted a portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan. [1] It was most likely painted around 1501/02, at the beginning of Loredan's reign. [2]