This course aims to provide the fundamental tools for understanding the formal development and the most relevant themes that can be found in the oeuvre of the painter Vittore Carpaccio; in particular, paintings will be analysed with the help of a wide series of sources (drawn from litterature, documents, etc.).
This course will underline the role played by Carpaccio in the Venetian context and his response to the social values of the time. In this light, a special focus will be set on iconography and iconology, stressing the painter’s connection to contemporary culture, not only in the visual field.
The Venetian context
The life of Carpaccio and the lost commissions
The teleri for the Scuole (Sant'Orsola, San Giovanni Evangelisti, San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Santa Maria degli Albanesi, Santo Stefano)
The altarpieces
Two case-studies: The "Ladies" of the Correr Museum (Venice;) the "Knight" of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Cecil H. Clough | A quest for identity: Carpaccio’s bethrotal portrait of Francesco Maria I Della Rovere | “Arte Documento” | 2003 | 17-19, 2003, pp. 258-263 | |
| Rona Goffen | Carpaccio’s Portrait of a young Knight: identity and meaning | “Arte Veneta” | 1983 | 37, 1983-84, pp. 37-48. | |
| Patricia Fortini Brown | La pittura nell’età di Carpaccio: i grandi cicli narrativi | Venezia, Albrizzi | 1992 | pp. 21-41, 61-89, 93-143, 170-199, 207-249 | |
| Augusto Gentili | Le storie di Carpaccio. Venezia, i Turchi, gli Ebrei | Venezia, Marsilio | 1996 | ||
| Gioia Mori | L’iter salvationis cristiano nel Seppellimento di Cristo di Vittore Carpaccio | “Storia dell’Arte” | 1990 | 69, 1990, pp. 164-200. | |
| Flavia Polignano | Maliarde e cortigiane: titoli per una damnatio. Le Dame di Vittore Carpaccio | “Venezia Cinquecento” | 1992 | 2, 1992, 3, pp. 5-23 | |
| Linda Borean | Nuove proposte e interpretazioni per le Storie della Vergine di Carpaccio nella Scuola degli Albanesi | “Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell’Arte” | 1994 | n. 19, 1994, pp. 21-72. | |
| Simona Cohen | The birds and animals of Carpaccio’s Miles Christianus | “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” | 2002 | 139, 2002, pp. 225-250 | |
| Simona Cohen | The enigma of Carpaccio’s Venetian Ladies | “Renaissance Studies” | 2005 | 19, 2005, 2, pp. 150-184. | |
| Cathy Santore | The fruits of Venus: Carpaccio’s two Courtesans | “Arte veneta” | 1988 | 42, 1988, pp. 34-39. |
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