Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1455 () probably in Venice, † 1526 in Koper, today: Slovenia ) was a painter of the Venetian school.

Life and work

He was born the son of a fur trader. His first known picture was probably painted around the time around the year 1480.

It is believed he was a pupil of Gentile Bellini and Vivarini, as he shows himself affected by this. An exception among the elderly Venetians, he understood the narrative moment in the painting to bring to bear ( nine images from the life of Saint Ursula, including The Dream of St. Ursula in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice; stories of St. George and the Saint Jerome in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice). However, his movements are manifold, its color strong, particularly rich in red tones, though not without a certain hardness, and especially its studded representation of architectural and landscape backgrounds captivates the beholder. Carpaccio was above all a master of narrative. His paintings are lively lead the incidents from the legends of the saints to the viewer in mind, the painter in a very imaginative way invents his scenes and this embellishes with a variety of exotic figures and architectures. An important part of taking this a particularly oriental dressed figures and Oriental-style architectures.

Apart from the pictures above are to be mentioned yet: the main altarpiece in San Vitale ( 1514), the supper at Emmaus in San Salvatore, the Coronation of the Virgin in San Giovanni e Paolo, all three in Venice, a genre picture in the Museo Correr there, then pictures in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, Milan, Ferrara, Stuttgart among others

According to him, the carpaccio was named.