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Figure 23: Classical ornament used in Italian Renaissance interiors: “Dream of St. Ursula,” canvas by Vittore Carpaccio, Italy, c. 1495. In the Academia, Venice. angel playing a lute
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Born c.1460 • Venice • Italy
Died 1525 or 1526 • Venice • Italy
Notable Works “Dream of St. Ursula” • “Presentation in the Temple”
Movement / Style Early Renaissance • Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance

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Figure 23: Classical ornament used in Italian Renaissance interiors: “Dream of St. Ursula,” canvas by Vittore Carpaccio, Italy, c. 1495. In the Academia, Venice.
angel playing a lute
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Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
Jacopo Bellini: The Nativity
Jacopo Bellini
Italian painter
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico
Italian painter
Masaccio
Italian painter
Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter
The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian painter
Correggio: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Correggio
Italian artist
Paolo Uccello
Italian painter
Baptism of Christ
Masolino
Italian painter
The Last Supper
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter
“The Virgin and Child with SS. Francis, John the Baptist, Zenobius and Lucy,” tempera on wood, central panel from the St. Lucy altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano, c. 1445; in the Uffizi, Florence
Domenico Veneziano
Italian painter
“The Condemned in Hell,” fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the chapel of S. Brizio, Orvieto, Italy
Luca Signorelli
Italian painter
Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
Filippino Lippi
Italian painter
Francesco Di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist

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