The Dream of St Ursula (1495)
Tempera on canvas, 274 x 267 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Vittore Carpaccio (c.1460–1525/6) was a Venetian painter who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2595, 489 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vittore Carpaccio ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2595, 489 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vittore Carpaccio ... Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... Country Italy Region Veneto Province Venice (VE) Mayor Massimo Cacciari (since April 18, 2004) Elevation m Area 412 km² Population  - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 271,251  - Density 646/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Veneziani Dialing code 041 Postal code 30100 Frazioni Chirignago, Favaro Veneto, Mestre... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus by Gentile Bellini, at the Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest Gentile Bellini (c. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Saint Ursula on the coat-of-arms of British Virgin Islands Ursula (small female bear in Latin) is a British Christian saint. ...

The facts of his life are obscure, but his principal works were executed between 1490 and 1519; and he ranks as an early Venetian masters. The date of his birth is conjectural. He is first mentioned in 1472in a will of his uncle Fra Ilario, and Dr Ludwig infers from this that he was born c. 1455, on the ground that no one could enter into an inheritance under the age of fifteen; but the inference ignores the possibility of a testator making his will in prospect of the beneficiary attaining his legal age. Events Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... Events March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico. ... Events February 20 - The Orkneys and Shetlands are annexed to the crown of Scotland Discovery of Newfoundland by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real. ...

Consideration of the youthful style of his earliest dated pictures ("St Ursula" series, Venice, 1490) makes it improbable that at that time he had reached so mature an age as thirty-five; and the date of his birth is more probably to be guessed from his being about twenty-five in 1490.

What is certain is that he was a pupil (not, as sometimes thought, the master) of Lazzaro Bastiani, who, like the Bellini and Vivarini, was the head of a large atelier in Venice, and whose own work is seen in such pictures as the "S. Veneranda" at Vienna, and the "Doge Mocenigo kneeling before the Virgin" and "Madonna and Child" (formerly attributed to Carpaccio) in the National Gallery, London. Giovanni Bellini painted his first female nude when he was about 85 years old. ... Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (c. ...

In later years Carpaccio appears to have been influenced by Cima da Conegliano (e.g. in the "Death of the Virgin," 1508, at Ferrara). Apart from the "St Ursula" series, his scattered series of the "Life of the Virgin" and "Life of St Stephen," and a "Dead Christ" at Berlin, may be specially mentioned. The Presentation of the Virgin Annunciation (1495). ...

Other works include the Ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat. 10,000 martyrs of Mount Ararat by Vittore Carpaccio The ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat were, according to legend, Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity and were crucified on Mount Ararat by order of the Roman emperor. ...

For an authoritative and detailed account, see the Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio, by Pompeo Molmenti and Gustav Ludwig, Eng. trans. by RH Cust (1907); and the criticism by Roger Fry, "A Genre Painter and his Critics," in the Quarterly Review (London, April 1908).

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