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

Disputation of St Stephen (detail)

1514
Tempera on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

In this painting Carpaccio gives his imagination free rein, creating the most eccentric architectural constructions of any of his works, such as the pyramid that blends into the opalescent sphere.