La Prédication de saint Étienne
Sul dipinto
La Predica di santo Stefano è un dipinto olio su tela (152x195 cm) di Vittore Carpaccio, firmato e datato 1514; si tratta di uno dei cinque teleri (di cui uno perduto) eseguiti per la Scuola di Santo Stefano di Venezia. Confiscato dal demanio napoleonico al momento della soppressione della scuola era stato assegnato alla pinacoteca di Brera. A questa Denon nel 1812 impose lo scambio forzoso, assieme ad altri cosiddetti "primitivi", con opere francesi e da allora è conservato nel Museo del Louvre di Parigi.
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- INV 181
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Vittore Carpaccio
Tutta la vita1500
Son born: Benedetto Carpaccio
c. 1501 – 1507
Paints with Giovanni Bellini in the Doge's Palace
Together with Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio worked in the Hall of the Great Council in the Doge's Palace; like many other major works, the cycle was entirely lost in the fire of 1577.
1508
Assesses Giorgione's frescoes on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Carpaccio joined a committee set up to assess Giorgione's frescoes on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the trading post of the German merchants in Venice.
c. 1510
Contemporaries find his style old-fashioned
By now Carpaccio's manner was seen as too conservative, and success passed to the innovators of the younger generation — Titian, Giorgione and Lorenzo Lotto. After 1510 he worked mainly for individual Venetian patrons and provincial clients, sending altarpieces to cities across the country.
mid-1510s
The workshop grows as the master's powers wane
Carpaccio's workshop turned out many works, but his late paintings show a clear decline in creative power, and his old manner was seen as an anachronism. He relied more and more on his sons Pietro and Benedetto, his principal pupils; Marco Marziale was also among his pupils.
1526
