Carpaccio, Vittore

(born c. 1460, Venice—died 1525/26, Venice) Italian painter active in Venice. Little is known of his early life, but the dominant influences on his work were the Bellini family and Antonello da Messina. In the 1490s he began the first of four cycles of paintings that are his greatest achievement: scenes from the life of St. Ursula, now in the Accademia, Venice; scenes from the lives of St. George, St. Jerome, and St. Tryphon (1502–07) for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice; and scenes from the life of the Virgin (c. 1500–10) and the life of St. Stephen (1511–20). He was one of the greatest early Renaissance narrative painters of the Venetian school.

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