CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c. 1465-c. 1522)

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CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c. 1465-c. 1522) , Italian painter, was born in Venice, cf 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

GREAT

Venetian masters. The date of his

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

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

INHERITANCE

under the age of fifteen; but the inference ignores
the possibility of a testator making his will in prospect of the

beneficiary

BENEFICIARY (from Lat. beneficium, a benefit)

attaining his legal age. Consideration of the youthful style of his earliest dated pictures (" St Ursula "

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, 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

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

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

WORK

is seen in such pictures as the " S. Veneranda " at Vienna, and the " Doge

Mocenigo

MOCENIGO

kneeling before the Virgin " and " Madonna and Child" (formerly attributed to

Carpaccio

CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c. 1465-c. 1522)

) in the National Gallery, London. In later years

Carpaccio

CARPACCIO, VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c. 1465-c. 1522)

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

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, his scattered series of the " Life of the Virgin " and " Life of St Stephen," and a " Dead Christ " at Berlin, may be specially mentioned.
For an authoritative and detailed account, see the Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio, by Pompeo Molmenti and Gustav Ludwig, Eng. trans. by R. H. Cust (1907) ; and the criticism by Roger Fry,
A Genre Painter and his Critics," in the Quarterly

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

(London, April 1908).

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