"heres where I am, the boy in front needs work think the other two are doing ok. the girl will be touching the front boys sleeve, and the baby will be touching a kite tail from the kite the girl will be holding up. so the 3 will be connected. if Im happy with it by this weekend will start figuring out how the big armature will be welded."                    - Laura Mehmert

*Carpaccio was the most brilliant exponent of the narrative style which developed in the frescoes of the Scuole in Venice from the second half of the 15th century. After the monumental cycle of the History of St. Ursula (Academia) and the frescoes which remain in place in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Carpaccio painted six Scenes from the Life of St. Stephen (Louvre, Brera, Milan, Stuttgart, Berlin-Dahlhem) between 1511 and 1520 for the Scuola dei Lanieri at San Stefano. This served as a pretext for a depiction of a resplendent Jerusalem, with Oriental costumes and exoticism giving an added richness to the classical ideal.