Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Cycle of St. Ursula: Meeting of Etherius and Ursula and the Departure of the Pilgrims
Alternate Title:
Leggenda di sant'Orsola: Partenza di sant'Orsola per il pellegrinaggio
Image View:
Detail, Antonio Loredan (right with banner), commissioner of the work
Creator:
Vittore Carpaccio (Italian painter, ca. 1460-ca. 1526)
Location:
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Venice, Veneto, Italy) inv. 369
Location Note:
Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050
GPS:
45.4315 12.3281
Date:
1495 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
280 cm (height) x 611 cm (width)
Subjects:
cityscape; cycles or series; saints; seascape; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Ursula, Saint; Venetian
Description:
Carpaccio's name is associated above all with the cycles of lively and festive narrative paintings that he executed for several of the Venetian scuole, or devotional confraternities. Carpaccio’s earliest dated work is the Arrival of St. Ursula at Cologne, the first of nine canvases executed for the Scuola di S Orsola and depicting the life of the confraternity’s patron saint. Other paintings in the cycle are dated 1491, 1493 and 1495. In the largest of the series, the Departure of St. Ursula (1495; Venice, Accad.), the scene on the right is typically one of pageantry and ceremony, with gaily dressed figures set against a townscape teeming with incident. In the scene on the left, set in pagan England, the backdrop is even more exotic. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CARPA-MEP-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cycle of St. Ursula: Meeting of Etherius and Ursula and the Departure of the Pilgrims