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Vittore Scarpaccia (Carpaccio), Venetian painter 1472 - 1526
and other Venetian and Lombard painters

"There was working in Padua Stefano, a painter of Ferrara, who adorned with various pictures the chapel and tomb wherein is the body of St. Anthony..." I-602
Madonna and Child by Stefano da Ferrara
"Besides these there were many others...but Vittore Scarpaccia [Carpaccio] was truly the first among them who made works of importance. His first works were in the Scuola of S. Orsola" I-603
The arrival of the ambassadors at the English court
The departure of the ambassadors
The return of the ambassadors
The meeting and the departure of the betrothed couple
(Medieval England on the left; Renaissance France on the right)
The dream of St Ursula
The couple meet Pope Cyriacus in Rome
The arrival of the Pilgrims in Cologne, besieged by the Huns
The Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and the Funeral of St Ursula
The Apotheosis of St. Ursula

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