This painting is so unusual for Venetian painting, that for a long time its author was considered Durer. Too North “seemed this work thanks to calligraphically prescribed plants in the foreground.
Carpaccio, whose signature on the Portrait of the Knight “was discovered during the restoration, undoubtedly saw the work of Dürer, since the latter was part of the workshop of Giovanni Bellini, and, undoubtedly, it was Durer’s herbs that” prompted him to solve the foreground of the Knight’s Portrait. “
However, the main discovery he made on his own, Writing the first in the history of European painting portrait in full length and full size. It is believed that it depicts a twenty-year-old Francesco Maria della Rovere, heir to the small Urbino principality. In addition, there is evidence that Carpaccio gave the face of the knight some self-portraits. There is also an opinion that this knight is none other than Saint Eustathius, the patron of hunters, but this does not negate the portrait specificity of his image.
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