Carpaccio’s confounding Hebrew
Vittore Carpaccio’s c. 1490 “Meditation on the Passion” could hardly be much weirder.
The treyfest—most unkosher—of artists is also one of art history’s most prolific painters of Hebrew inscriptions.
Giuseppe Cipriani, of Harry’s Bar in Venice, supposedly named a dish after Venetian artist Vittore Carpaccio, when its thin, raw meat—served with Parmesan, thus non-kosher—evoked the painter’s red palette. Carpaccio “rarely met a detail he di…