The artist practically did not address the portrait as a separate genre. But he has a kind of design and execution of the work – “Young Knight in the background of the landscape” from the collection of Baron Thiessen.
The hero is represented in the environment of nature against the background of the castle. With the knowledge of a true naturalist, Carpaccio writes out every leaf, every plant. It seems that they belong to the brush of the Dutch painter – every detail of the image is reproduced so faithfully and with such precision. And yet for the Carpaccio, the natural world did not reveal any special depths; nature, he vested primarily symbolic and even heraldic meaning. He was much more attracted to city life and the place of man in it – according to modern concepts, the artist was an urbanist.
According to the motto and image of white ermine art critics concluded that the knight belonged to the Neapolitan Order of the Gornosty, which was founded by Ferdinand I.
At an exhibition of works by Carpaccio in Venice in 1963 R. Weiss found that the painting depicts Francesco Maria della Rovere, who in 1508 inherited the duchy of Urbino. He was condottiere and since 1523 – Commander of the Venetian military forces and owned a palace in Venice, which was donated to him by the Senate. This painting was one of the first in European painting portraits in growth and is considered an authentic masterpiece of the master.
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