Carpaccio, Vittore (redirected from Vittore Carpaccio)

Carpaccio, Vittore (vēt-tô`rā kärpät`chō), c.1450–1522, Venetian painter, influenced by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. His delightful narrative paintings reflect the pageantry of 15th-century Venice. They also offer a fanciful view of the Middle East, gained through contemporary drawings. His style is notable for its rich color, luminosity, and wealth of detail. Among his best paintings are the cycle depicting the life of St. Ursula, the St. George series, the Presentation in the Temple (all: Academy, Venice); scenes from the life of St. Stephen (Louvre; Brera, Milan); Meditation on the Passion (Metropolitan Mus.); Saint Reading and other works (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.).

Bibliography

See T. Pignatti's Carpaccio (1958).

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Carpaccio, Vittore

(born c. 1460, Venice—died 1525/26, Venice) Italian painter active in Venice. Little is known of his early life, but the dominant influences on his work were the Bellini family and Antonello da Messina. In the 1490s he began the first of four cycles of paintings that are his greatest achievement: scenes from the life of St. Ursula, now in the Accademia, Venice; scenes from the lives of St. George, St. Jerome, and St. Tryphon (1502–07) for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice; and scenes from the life of the Virgin (c. 1500–10) and the life of St. Stephen (1511–20). He was one of the greatest early Renaissance narrative painters of the Venetian school.