The Carpaccio Exhibition in Venice is Closing Soon, But the Artist’s Legacy Isn’t Going Anywhere
![Vittore Carpaccio: Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1502/1503, oil on canvas, 128,5 × 127,5 cm. Bergamo, Accademia Carrara](/sites/default/files/styles/800xauto/public/2023-06/birth-of-the-virgin-carpaccio-1.jpg?itok=K3x5ENAp)
Of all the thousands of great paintings in Venice, the favorite of my grandchildren is Vittore Carpaccio’s Saint George and the Dragon in the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni. One of a series of three depicting the life of Saint George, it’s extremely gory, with half-chewed remains of bodies strewn around the ground.
A similar but rather less repellent work, Saint George and the Dragon and Four Scenes of His Martyrdom, from Venice’s Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, can
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