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See also:CARPACCIO, See also:VITTORIO, or VITTORE (c. 1465-c. 1522) , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born in See also:Venice, cf an old Venetian See also:family . The facts of his See also:life are obscure, but his See also:principal See also:works were executed between 1490 and 1519; and he ranks as one of the finest precursors of the See also:great Venetian masters . The date of his See also:birth is conjectural . He is first mentioned in 1472 in a will of his See also:uncle Fra Ilario, and Dr See also:Ludwig infers from this that he was born c . 1455, on the ground that no one could enter into an See also:inheritance under the See also:age of fifteen; but the inference ignores the possibility of a testator making his will in prospect of the See also:beneficiary attaining his legal age . See also:Consideration of the youthful See also:style of his earliest dated pictures (" St See also:Ursula " See also:series, Venice, 1490) makes it improbable that at that See also:time he had reached so mature an age as See also: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 See also:pupil (not, as sometimes thought, the See also:master) of Lazzaro Bastiani, who, like the See also:Bellini and See also:Vivarini, was the See also:head of a large atelier in Venice, and whose own See also:work is seen in such pictures as the " S . Veneranda " at See also:Vienna, and the " See also:Doge See also:Mocenigo kneeling before the Virgin " and " Madonna and See also:Child" (formerly attributed to See also:Carpaccio) in the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London . In later years Carpaccio appears to have' been influenced by Cima da See also:Conegliano (e.g. in the " See also:Death of the Virgin," 1508, at See also:Ferrara) . Apart from the " St Ursula " series, his scattered series of the " Life of the Virgin " and " Life of St See also:Stephen," and a " Dead See also:Christ " at See also:Berlin, may be specially mentioned . For an authoritative and detailed See also:account, see the Life and Works of See also:Vittorio Carpaccio, by Pompeo Molmenti and Gustav Ludwig, Eng. trans. by R . H . Cust (1907) ; and the See also:criticism by See also:Roger See also:Fry, A Genre Painter and his Critics," in the Quarterly See also:Review (London, See also:April 1908) . |
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