Research has placed his birth at Capo d'Istria about 1450.

His earliest picture is dated 1490: his last 1521 or 1522.

Gentile Bellini was his master.
Ruskin found Carpaccio by far the most sympathetic Venetian painter.
Everything that he painted, even, as I point out later, the Museo Civico picture of the two ladies, he exults in, here, there, and everywhere.

In his little guide to the Accademia, published in 1877, he roundly calls Carpaccio's "Presentation of the Virgin" the "best picture" in the gallery.

In one of the letters written from Venice in _Fors Clavigera_--and these were, I imagine, subjected to less critical examination by their author before they saw the light than any of his writings--is the following summary, which it may be interesting to read here.