About the Artist

Vittore Carpaccio was an important representative of the Venetian Renaissance. He worked as an assistant in Gentile Bellini's workshop, and was with great likelihood his pupil, as well. Together with Giovanni Bellini, he decorated the Doge's Palace. In addition to these artists, he was also influenced by Antonello da Messina. In his works Carpaccio combines the depiction of real and legendary subjects with motifs of his own invention. Although this "additive" narrative method still displays the influence of the style typical of the early Renaissance, the light-filled atmosphere and the perfectly constructed perspective of his pictures are innervative. Carpaccio painted several series of pictures for the Venetian scuole, or confraternities, as well as some religious panels. In these extensive, picture sequence the artist relates the lives of saints, transferring them to Venetian surroundings. Other major works of Carpaccio include The miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross, 1494/95, The burial of Christ, 1510, Potrait of a Young Knight, 1510