Two Venetian Ladies was verified by an in depth technical analysis, comparing the two fragmentary panels. Another panel the same size as these two combined would have been on the left; probably the two were hinged together to make a diptych, or a folding door or shutter. The Getty panel has an illusionistic letter rack painted on the back of the panel, which was presumably matched on this panel. This appears to be the earliest small-scale trompe-l'œil painting since antiquity. Two Venetian Ladies Two Venetian Ladies is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter
Master of the Brunswick Diptych number of other paintings have been identified as being by the same hand. The works by the Master of the Brunswick Diptych show similarities with those of Geertgen tot Sint Jans but the colours are generally lighter, his treatment of space and anatomy is less accomplished and the paintings more miniature-like. In a panel painting presently in Cologne, the master breaks new ground by depicting a domestic scene of a woman feeding a child for the first time in panel painting. Master of the Brunswick Diptych The Master of the Brunswick Diptych (fl. c. 1480-1510) was a Dutch early Renaissance