The dream of Saint Ursula “can be safely called a masterpiece.” From the point of view of the development of events, “the picture does not occupy an important place in the cycle dedicated to the life of this saint. Nothing happens here. In a small bedchamber, penetrated by the first rays of the morning sun, a young girl sleeps quietly.
A small angel enters the half-open door. He does not break the tranquility of this composition, only makes it even more enlightened. Researchers believe that some details for the Dream of Saint Ursula “Carpaccio was borrowed from St. Jerome in the cell” by Antonello da Messina.
At that time, this picture was in a private Venetian meeting, and our hero, no doubt, could see it. It is quite clear that it was from St. Jerome that “large vases with plants, home shoes in the foreground and finally a double window in the center of the wall came in the cellar” in the Dream of Saint Ursula “, but not the borrowed details determine the sound of the masterpiece Carpaccio.
The main role is played by light. It fills the entire space of the picture as the water fills the aquarium, and makes it luminous itself.
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