The exact time of writing this picture is unknown, and in different sources you can find different of its datings – from the late 1490s to the early 1510s. Most researchers are inclined, however, to the fact that it was written around 1500. The fact that it is quite early, says, above all, its prescription. “
The artist very carefully transmits all the folds of the clothes of the characters, embroidery, cracks of the rocks, too much “the landscape.” The genre, to which our hero addressed this time, was very widespread in Venice at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, usually depicting Madonna with the Infant and several saints in the background of the idyllic landscape, sometimes in this scene in the landscape “included the portrait of the customer.
All the necessary details for Carpaccio, it would seem, are present. But the relationship between nature and man in his work is somewhat different than that of the Venetians. It is believed that the prototype “for the Holy Interview” Carpaccio was a small painting of the same name Mantegna, where the characters are exactly depicted against the background of a majestic arch.
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