Next up in our tour of Vittore Carpaccio is “Saint Augustine in His Study.” Carpaccio was a specialist in creating series of huge paintings designed to hang in sequence to tell the story of a saint or other Biblical story and “St. Augustine” is one of these.

We’ll find out how an unexpected visitor told the saint to get over himself, how Carpaccio created an immersive media experience in a Venetian meetinghouse, and how a dog beat out a weasel for a role in this scene.

SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode music is “Sheep May Safely Graze - BWV 208” and “Lone Harvest”  by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Exhibition information
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html

Artwork information
Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

St. Augustine bio
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine

Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni tour (starts at 4:55)
https://aur.edu/dalmatian-school-venice-professor-jason-cardone

Words of Jerome to Augustine (Requires JSTOR login)
Roberts, Helen I. “St. Augustine in ‘St. Jerome’s Study’: Carpaccio’s Painting and Its Legendary Source.” The Art Bulletin 41, no. 4 (1959): pg 292. https://doi.org/10.2307/3047853.

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