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Bishop Holding a Candle (recto); Draped Legs (verso)
Creator
Vittore CarpaccioItalian Artist · 1–1465
All works by this person →Vittore Carpaccio always managed to depict Venice in his painting. Britain and Brittany were transformed into the canal city in one of his most famous cycles, *The Legend of Saint Ursula,* commissioned by Venice's Scuola of Saint Ursula, a fraternity of merchants and craftsmen, for their meeting hall adjacent to a Dominican church. When he completed the cycle in 1498, Venetians delighted in the pa
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- 1493
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and wash, heghtened with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 79623d82-8167-4a58-ac5e-0a0c0a7c7221
From the Getty Museum record
The imposing figure of a bishop holding a long taper stick and climbing the stairs fills this slightly irregularly shaped drawing. As he mounts the stairs, the bishop turns to gaze sadly out at the viewer. After delicately drawing in the man's form with pen and brown wash, Vittore Carpaccio went over his long cape, beard, and pointed hat with fine lines of white bodycolor, giving a sense of shimmering texture to the drapery's deep folds. He made this drawing as a preparatory study for part of a painting, completed in 1493.
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