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The Meeting of the Betrothed Couple and the Departure of the Pilgrims is a painting in Vittore Carpaccio's St. Ursula Cycle. Vittore Carpaccio, born in Venice in a family of sea men, learned under Gentile Bellini. He morphed into his own style,…

The painting shows the first of the three episodes dedicated to St. George's life: the other two are the Triumph of St. George and the Baptism of the Selenites. The works date to Carpaccio's mature period when he was commissioned by the "Scuola"…

Carpaccio’s "The Vision of St. Augustine" depicts St. Augustine in his cell writing a letter to St. Jerome to try to quantify the exact amount of joy that a person feels in the presence of God. In the moment that is painted, a bright light with the…

Depicted here is the “Triumph of Saint George”, a painting created by Vittore Carpaccio. In order to understand the context of the painting, one must first understand the historical story. St. George, a traveling Christian Roman soldier, stumbles…

The painting Triumph of Saint George by Vittore Carpaccio is the fifth of seven paintings in a collection known as Episodes from the Life of Sts Jerome, George and Triphun that depict three stories of Christian saints. This specific painting depicts…

This canvas is a part of Carpaccio's St. Ursula series, coming directly after the Dream of St. Ursula and prior to her arrival in Cologne. St. Ursula, wearing a blue dress near the center of the painting, kneels next to her fiance, looking up at the…

The lady sleeping in the bed is an image of Princess Usrula, the daughter of King Norus of Brittany in the 5th century AD. She was very beautiful and wise which caused her to have many suitors. The King of Anglia wanted his son to marry her, so she…

In this painting Carpaccio depicts a ruthless dragon and the attempt to fend it off. The threat of the creature is underscored by the grisly half-eaten torsos, one of a nude man whose genitals are mostly left, and one of a still-collared woman,…

The context of this image is that Vittore Carpaccio reveals Saint Jerome next to a lion while others around him are scared and running away from him. The image is the second of seven total paintings that depict Saint Jerome and is part of the…

The Dream of Ursula was created by Vittore Carpaccio in 1495 and is currently placed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy.  This painting is the fifth canvas out of the nine large paintings in the series "Stories from the Life of St…