Vittore Carpaccio (1460-66 –1525/26)m

• Was an Italian painter of the Venetian school.
• Carpaccio studied under Gentile Bellini.
• He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula.
• He was a pupil of Lazzaro Bastiani, who was the head of a large atelier in Venice.
• Carpaccio's late works were mostly done in the Venetian mainland territories, and in collaboration with his sons Benedetto and Piero.
• One of his pupils was Marco Marziale.
• Carpaccio completed three notable altarpieces for Venetian churches—St. Thomas Aquinas Enthroned (1507), Presentation in the Temple (1510), and Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1515).
• His last dated works are two organ shutters for the Duomo at Capodistria (1523).
• The displayed painting is a crop from The Virgin Reading, c. 1505.