born 0441; 1460, Venice
died 1525/26, Venice
Italian painter active in Venice.
Little is known of his early life, but the dominant influences on his work were the Bellini family and Antonello da Messina . In the 1490s he began the first of four cycles of paintings that are his greatest achievement: scenes from the life of St. Ursula, now in the Accademia, Venice; scenes from the lives of St. George, St. Jerome, and St. Tryphon (150207) for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice; and scenes from the life of the Virgin ( 0441; 150010) and the life of St. Stephen (151120). He was one of the greatest early Renaissance narrative painters of the Venetian school .