Benedetto Diana was a companion of Carpacoio

Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian...

 and Mansueti

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti was an Italian painter. Also known as Giovanni Mansueti.Known by a few paintings. Little is known of his biography. He was active in Venice from 1485 to 1526. Pupil of Gentile Bellini and worked in the antique style in the Miracles of the Cross painted in 1494-ca...

, who lived in the latter part of the 15th and early part of the 16th centuries. He was an inferior artist, and worked both in tempera

Tempera

Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium . Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist...

 and oils

Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...

. He painted 'The Brethren distributing Alms,' in San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista is a 15th century religious building in the San Polo sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands across a courtyard from the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista.-History:...

; and he assisted Lazzaro Bastiani

Lazzaro Bastiani

Lazzaro Bastiani was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice.He was born in Padua. He is first recorded as a painter in Venice by 1460 in a payment for an altarpiece of San Samuele, for the Procuratori di San Marco. In 1462 he was paid at the same rate as Giovanni Bellini...

 in painting the standards on the Piazza of San Marco

Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco , is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza". All other urban spaces in the city are called "campi"...

. Many galleries in Venice possess paintings by him. In the Academy

Accademia

The Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice, northern Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the...

, besides other paintings, are the 'Virgin and Child,' formerly in Santa Lucia at Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

, and a 'Transfiguration.' The church of Santa Maria della Croce, Crema

Santa Maria della Croce, Crema

Santa Maria della Croce is a Roman Catholic sanctuary in Crema, Lombardy, northern Italy.-History:The church is located on the place where Caterina degli Uberti, a local woman, was killed by his husband on 13 February 1489...

, has an altar-piece representing the 'Gift of the Miraculous Girdle to St. Thomas.' No date can be given of his birth.