Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · 1480
Carlo Crivelli
Italian · 1430–1490
Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione, and Mantegna. He left the Veneto by 1458 and spent most of the remainder of his career in the March of Ancona, where he developed a distinctive personal style that contrasts with that of his Venetian contemporary Giovanni Bellini.
Known works
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
Carlo Crivelli · 1486
National Gallery
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius is an altarpiece by Italian artist Carlo Crivelli showing an artistic adaptation of the Annunciation. The Annunciation is a religious event described in the Bible which involves the archangel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary and announcing a sacred message. This altarpiece was painted for the Church of SS.
Porto San Giorgio Polyptych
Carlo Crivelli · 1470
National Museum in Kraków
The Porto San Giorgio Altarpiece or Porto San Giorgio Polytpych was a 1470 multi-panel tempera and gold on panel altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli. Stylistically similar to Crivelli's Massa Fermana Altarpiece, the work was a fundamental step in his evolution away from the Paduan Renaissance towards a more delicate and realist style. Originally in San Giorgio church in Porto San Giorgio, Fermo, it was split up in the 19th century and sold in separate lots, meaning its panels are now split between a number of European and American museums.
Pala di San Pietro di Muralto
Carlo Crivelli · 1488
Vatican Museums
The San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece or San Pietro degli Osservanti Altarpiece is a 1488 to 1489 tempera and gold on panel altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli and his studio, named after the Dominican church in Camerino in which it originally hung, and now divided between a number of American and European museums. On 8 November 1483 the artist committed to paint a multi-panel altarpiece for Mariano Ronci as large and beautiful as the 1482 San Domenico di Camerino Altarpiece. The work was not produced quickly, but on 28 October 1488 he signed a contract with Ronci's heir Mariano Meneconi by which he was given a year to paint it in return for 100 florins paid in instalments.
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