Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Disputation of Saint Stephen
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Vittore Carpaccio (Italian painter, ca. 1460-ca. 1526)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) Inv. Reg. Cron. 241
Location Note:
On temporary loan to Uffizi
Date:
1514 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
147 cm (height) x 172 cm (width)
Description:
Part of the series of the life of Saint Stephen, four canvases for the Scuola di S Stefano, Venice (1511-1520). With the penetrating clarity of the light and brilliant architectural fantasy, mingling classical and oriental elements, the episode now in Milan is certainly the best of the cycle. Eastern scholars mix with the brothers of the School as they listen to St. Stephen's sermon. The loggia in the foreground is clearly modeled on the architecture of Pietro Lombardo. Against the totally imaginary architectural background, Carpaccio has given us a series of concrete and realistic portraits, probably of members of the confraternity. [The painting was photographed while on temporary loan at the Uffizi.] (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CARP-UG-DSS-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Disputation of Saint Stephen