Author:
Humfrey, Peter, 1947- author.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Imprint2022
Descriptionxi, 340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Note:"Exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Exhibition venues: National Gallery of Art, Washington, November 20, 2022-February 12, 2023; Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, March 18-June 18, 2023."--Title page verso.
Note:Vittore Carpaccio: life and work / Peter Humfrey -- Narrative paintings for Venetian confraternities / Susannah Rutherglen -- Carpaccio's painted architecture / Deborah Howard -- Carpaccio as a draftsman / Catherine Whistler -- Carpaccio's pictorial technique / Joanna Dunn -- Critics and collectors of Carpaccio from Vasari to the fall of the Republic / Linda Borean -- Carpaccio in the nineteenth century: toward a modern interpretation / Andrea Bellieni -- Catalog / Peter Humfrey, Susannah Rutherglen, and Sara Menato.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
Note:Meticulously researched and luxuriously illustrated, this volume offers a comprehensive view of Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460-1526), whose work has been admired for centuries for its fantastical settings enriched with contemporary incident and detail. Capturing the sanctity and splendor of Venice at the turn of the 16th century, when the city controlled a vast maritime empire, Carpaccio combined careful observation of the urban environment with a taste for the poetic in his beloved narrative cycles and altarpieces. Providing a new lens through which to understand Carpaccio's work, a team of distinguished scholars explores various aspects of his art, including his achievement as a draftsman. In addition to emphasizing the artist's innovative techniques and contributions to the development of Venetian Renaissance painting, this study includes an in-depth consideration of the fluctuations in the reception of Carpaccio's work in the five hundred years since the artist's death.
