Vittore Carpaccio (1455?-1526) was, like Gentile Bellini, a painter of Venetian fêtes, pageantry, and religious pictures on an imposing scale. Nothing is known of Carpaccio’s artistic descent, but his work shows traces of the influence of Jacopo Bellini and of Lazzaro Bastiani, who was the head of a group of artists whose art was based on the tradition of such early painters as Jacobello del Fiore. Carpaccio’s _Preaching of St. Stephen at Jerusalem_ (No. 1211) is one of the series of five incidents from the _Life of St. Stephen_ which were painted by this artist between 1511 and 1520 for the Scuola di S. Stefano at Milan. The others of the series are now in the Milan Gallery (No. 170—signed and dated 1513), at Berlin (No. 23), and at Stuttgart. The Louvre obtained this canvas, which varies from the others in size, from the Milan Gallery in 1813, when together with Boltraffio’s _Madonna of the Casio Family_ (No. 1169) and other pictures it was exchanged for works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. To Vincenzo Catena (14..?-1531?) may be assigned, on stylistic grounds, the _Reception of a Venetian Ambassador at Cairo in 1512_ (No. 1157). In any case, it cannot have been executed by Gentile Bellini, as alleged in the Catalogue, as the audience here depicted did not take place until five years after that master’s death! Another Bellinesque painter was Bartolommeo Veneto (fl. 1505-1555). We shall, following the suggestion of Venturi, assign to him the excellent but officially unattributed _Portrait of a Lady_ (No. 1673) which hangs to the right of Raphael’s _La Belle Jardinière_. GIORGIONE