This Venetian Renaissance painter rarely met a detail he didn't like

Jan 09, 2023 335

Vittore Carpaccio's "St. Augustine in His Study" would make first-rate "Where's Waldo?" fodder. In the large painting, dated around 1502, the saint — per legend — realizes he is penning a letter to a man who has just died: St. Jerome.

Carpaccio peppers the scene with books, ecclesiastical paraphernalia, sculptures, an hourglass, and a shell, among other objects. It's such a more-is-more picture that one is liable, as I admit I did, to miss one of the most mystifying design elements in art history.

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