Birds, Trees, and Shining Armor: What Symbols and Objects Tell Us in Carpaccio’s “A Young Knight”
A detailed look at the Renaissance painter's evocative portrait.
Past Exhibition
Vittore Carpaccio, The Virgin Reading, c. 1505, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.354
Vittore Carpaccio, Ordination of Saint Stephen, 1511, oil on canvas, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldergalerie, n. 23
Image © bpk Bildagentur / Gemaldegalerie / Joerg P. Anders / Art Resource, NY
Vittore Carpaccio, Saint Augustine in His Study, shortly after 1502, oil and tempera on canvas, Scuola Dalmata dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone, Venice
Photo credit: Matteo De Fina
Vittore Carpaccio, The Flight into Egypt, 1516/1518, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.28
Vittore Carpaccio, Two Women on a Balcony, c. 1492/1494, oil on panel, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Museo Correr, Cl. I n. 0046
Vittore Carpaccio, Fishing and Fowling on the Lagoon, c. 1492/1494, oil on panel, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 79.PB.72
Vittore Carpaccio, A Young Knight, 1510, oil on canvas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Vittore Carpaccio, Doge Leonardo Loredan, c. 1501/1504, oil on panel, Fondazione Musei Civici de Venezia, Museo Correr, Cl. I no. 43
Vittore Carpaccio, The Lion of Saint Mark, 1516, oil on canvas, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Palazzo Ducale
Vittore Carpaccio, Meditation on the Passion of Christ, c. 1494–1496, oil on panel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11.118
Vittore Carpaccio, Saint George and the Dragon and Four Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint George, 1516, oil on canvas, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Benedicti Claustra Onlus, Venice
Photo by Matteo De Fina, image © Courtesy of Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore - Benedicti Claustra Onlus
Vittore Carpaccio, Birth of the Virgin, c. 1502/1503, oil on canvas, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Vittore Carpaccio, Virgin Reading with the Christ Child (recto) Virgin Adoring the Child with the Young Baptist (verso), c. 1496-1497, pen and brown ink over red chalk, on laid paper, The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London. Bridgeman Images
Vittore Carpaccio, Studies of a Seated Youth in Armor, c. 1500-1505, black chalk, point of brush and gray wash highlighted with white gouache on blue paper, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisa Whittelsey Collection, The Elisa Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Organization
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
The exhibition is curated by Peter Humfrey, internationally recognized scholar of 15th- and 16th-century Venetian painting and professor emeritus of art history at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in collaboration with Andrea Bellieni, director, Museo Correr, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and Gretchen Hirschauer, curator of Italian and Spanish painting at the National Gallery of Art.
Other venues
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, March 18–June 18, 2023
Sponsors
The exhibition is made possible by the leadership support of Constance J. Milstein.
Additional funding is provided by the Director's Circle of the National Gallery of Art and the Annenberg Fund for the International Exchange of Art, and the Embassy of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Passes
Admission is always free and passes are not required
Banner detail: Vittore Carpaccio, Virgin Reading, c. 1505, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.354