CARPACCIO, Vittore
(b. 1472, Venezia, d. 1526, Capodistria)

Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and the Funeral of St Ursula (detail)

1493
Tempera on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

All the characters, portraits of contemporaries, take part in this splendid interplay of forms, with their statuary solidity and their sense of physical movement; notice particularly the woman kneeling to the right, presumably a deceased member of the Caotorta family since she is portrayed set apart from the rest of the procession.