Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio was a Venetian painter, influenced by Gentile Bellini and Antonello da Messina, best known for large narrative cycles painted for Venice’s religious confraternities. His Legend of Saint Ursula, now in the Accademia in Venice, and the scenes of Saint George and Saint Jerome in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni are full of carefully observed Venetian streets, ships and daily life. He is also remembered for the strange Two Venetian Ladies in the Museo Correr. He died in Capodistria, now Koper in Slovenia.