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Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading oil painting on canvas
The Virgin Reading
Painting ID::  341
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Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading oil painting on canvas



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  Vittore Carpaccio
  Italian 1455-1526 Vittore Carpaccio Locations His name is associated with the cycles of lively and festive narrative paintings that he executed for several of the Venetian scuole, or devotional confraternities. He also seems to have enjoyed a considerable reputation as a portrait painter. While evidently owing much in both these fields to his older contemporaries, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio quickly evolved a readily recognizable style of his own which is marked by a taste for decorative splendour and picturesque anecdote. His altarpieces and smaller devotional works are generally less successful, particularly after about 1510, when he seems to have suffered a crisis of confidence in the face of the radical innovations of younger artists such as Giorgione and Titian.
  The Virgin Reading
  c1505 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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