See also: Carpaccio (homonymy)

Vittore Carpaccio (Venice ~ 1460 - ~ 1526), of its true name Scarpazza , is a narrative Italian painter of the Venetian school, follower of Gentile Bellini and Lazzaro Bastiani, influenced by Flemish painting.

Biography

Vittore Carpaccio was one of the first to use the presence of architecture, preceding a kind, the Vedute (urban landscapes). It will treat invariably in a serious and naive way, sometimes picturesque, Venetian reality, in margin of the pictorial mode of its time.

It was all its life with the service of the Scuole (schools), charitable brotherhoods and of benevolence which employed artists whose patrons were famous Venetian families, which explains why their emblems appear in good place in its works.

Principal works

• the Holy arrival of Ursule with Cologne

• major cycle (Venice), including/understanding, on the one hand, new fabrics of the Legend of Holy Ursule , on the other hand, the cycle of Holy Jean the Evangelist , then that of Scuola degli Schiavoni illustrating the life of three saints: Georges, Jerome and Tryphon, or that of Scuola degli Albanesi illustrating scenes of the life of the Virgin ;
• Holy Augustin in his cell receiving the vision of Saint Jerome (Venice);
• Holy Jerome bringing back the lion to the monastery (Venice);
• the Virgin in throne with four saints (Vicence);
• the death of Saint Jerome ;
• Christ (Udine);
• Meditation of the passion of Christ (New York);
• Holy conversion (Avignon);
• Christ died with Saint Jerome and Sainte Omphre (New York);
• Put at the tomb (Berlin);
• Presentation of Jesus to the temple (Venice);
• Scenes of the life of Holy Etienne (Venice);
• the two Venetian courtesans or” two ladies” (Venice);
• Portrait of a knight (Madrid);
• Nativity of Madon E (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo);
• Six saints (Jacques the Major one, Antonio Abate, Andre the apostle, Dominique de Guzman, Laurent and Nicolas de Bari ; Accademia Carrara, Bergamo);
• Holy Roch (and portrait of the giver; Accademia Carrara, Bergamo);
• Page in a landscape (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo).
• the Preaching of Etienne Saint in Jerusalem (Museum of Louvre)
• the Dream of Holy Ursule (Venice)

Anecdote

In 1973, the name of the painter will be given to a dish, the " carpaccio ", composed of very fine sections of believed ox net been useful with a seasoning. Name would come from the prevalence from tons bright red in the painting of Vittore Carpaccio, but of aucuns affirm that it is the scene of the triumph of Georges Saint who would be in the beginning.

See too

• Giorgio Vasari quotes it and describes its biography in Quickly the under the name of Vittore Scarpaccia

External bonds

1. Conference of M-H.Viviani: Vittore Carpaccio - Venice at the time of Carpaccio (fabrics and comments);
2. Foundation Shepherd: Carpaccio
3. Web Gallery off Art
4. illustrated Catalog of Accademia Carrara of Bergamo

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