About 1490 a young Venetian painter, Vittoro Carpaccio, completed a series of seven large, graceful, richly detailed canvasses depicting the legend of St Ursula. Each painting recorded another episode in the tragic destiny of the beautiful princess from Britanny who, a thousand years earlier, had accepted the hand of an English prince in marriage on the condition that he accompany her to Rome to be converted to her own religion. In a vision Ursula learned that her pilgrimage would end in brutal massacre, but her faith was stronger than her fear of death. (Commentary in Italian)
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322002
Language
Italian
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Venice (Italy)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Study and teaching
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Themes, motives
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and literature
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - Italy
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Italian
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Art - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)