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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 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…

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 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…

The "Pilgrims Meet the Pope", is the 6th canvas in the series of the "Stories from the Line of St Ursula". In this scene you can see the retinue of virgins approaching on a long pathway. The English Prince and Ursula are kneeling in front of Pope…

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…

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…

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"…

The Venetian government, the Signoria, created a contest to see who would create a painting modeled after Dante’s Paradise on the wall of the Great Council Hall after the destruction of the fire of 1577. At first, Veronese was chosen to create the…

Minerva Sending Away Mars from Peace and Prosperity is a single painting in a cycle of four paintings that include, Three Graces and Mercury, Bacchus, Ariadne and Venus, Minerva Rejecting Mars and the Forge of Vulcan. [1] These pieces were created…