Vittore Carpaccio

Italian Artist · 1–1465

4 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture

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