Vittore Carpaccio

{"Id":616,"Name":"Vittore Carpaccio","Biography":"CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c.1465\u0026mdash;c.1522), Italian painter, was born in Venice, of an old Venetian family. The facts of his life are obscure, but his principal works were executed between 1490 and 1519; and he ranks as one of the finest precursors of the great Venetian masters. The date of his birth is conjectural. He is first mentioned in 1472 in 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. Consideration of the youthful style of his earliest dated pictures (\u003Cu\u003ESt Ursula\u003C/u\u003E 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 \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bastiani_lazzaro.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELazzaro Bastiani\u003C/a\u003E, 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 \u003Cu\u003ES. Veneranda\u003C/u\u003E at Vienna, and the \u003Cu\u003EDoge Mocenigo kneeling before the Virgin\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EMadonna and Child\u003C/u\u003E (formerly attributed to Carpaccio) in the National Gallery, London. In later years Carpaccio appears to have been influenced by \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/conegliano_giambattista_cima_da.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECima da Conegliano\u003C/a\u003E (e.g. in the \u003Cu\u003EDeath of the Virgin\u003C/u\u003E, 1508, at Ferrara). Apart from the \u003Cu\u003ESt Ursula\u003C/u\u003E series, his scattered series of the \u003Cu\u003ELife of the Virgin\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003ELife of St Stephen\u003C/u\u003E, and a \u003Cu\u003EDead Christ\u003C/u\u003E at Berlin, may be specially mentioned.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESelect Bibliography:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003EFry, Roger. \u0026ldquo;A Genre Painter and his Critics.\u0026rdquo; \u003Cu\u003EQuarterly Review\u003C/u\u003E. London, April 1908.\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003EMolmenti, Pompeo and Gustav Ludwig, lang. trans. by R. H. Cust. \u003Cu\u003ELife and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio\u003C/u\u003E. 1907.\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003ERinaldi, Stefania Mason, lang. trans. by Andrew Ellis. \u003Cu\u003ECarpaccio: The Major Pictorial Cycles\u003C/u\u003E. Skira, October 2000\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003ESgarbi, Vittorio. \u003Cu\u003ECarpaccio\u003C/u\u003E. Abbeville Press, Inc.; July 1995.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://53.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CA/CARPACCIO_VITTORIO.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":true,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":19}