''Life of the Virgin'' is a cycle of six large canvases by Vittore Carpaccio, dating to between 1504 and 1508. Originally painted for the sala dell'Albergo in the Scuola di Santa Maria degli Albanesi in Venice, they are now split between several museums. They are mostly in oil, though some of them are in mixed technique.

History

Whilst still working on paintings for the Scuola degli Schiavoni, Carpaccio was summoned by their rivals the

Scuola degli Albanesi The Scuola di Santa Maria degli Albanesi (School of Holy Mary of the Albanians in English; ''Shkolla e Shën Mërisë së Arbërorëvet'' in Albanian) was a confraternity, a Scuola Piccola, for Albanian Christians Catholics ( Greek-Byzantine an ...

to produce a cycle on the Life of the Virgin, joint patron saint of their confraternity with saint Gall. The confraternity later passed to the Pistori (i.e. the bakers) but was suppressed in 1808 during the Napoleonic occupation and all its furnishings and paintings sold off and split up, including the ''Life of the Virgin'' cycle.

List

Bibliography

* Francesco Valcanover, ''Vittore Carpaccio'', in AA. VV., ''Pittori del Rinascimento'', Scala, Firenze 2007. * AA. VV., ''Brera, guida alla pinacoteca'', Electa, Milano 2004.

External links

* * {{Vittore Carpaccio Collections of the Accademia Carrara Paintings in the Pinacoteca di Brera Paintings in the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro 1500s paintings Paintings by Vittore Carpaccio Paintings of the Annunciation Paintings of the Nativity of the Virgin Paintings of the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple Paintings of the Visitation