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Carlo Crivelli (1435 in Venice, Italy – 1495
in Naples, Italy) was a Venice|Venetian painter.

The only dates that can with certainty be given
are 1468 and 1493; these are respectively the
earliest and the latest years signed on his
pictures--the former on an altar-piece in the
church of San Silvestro at Massa near Fermo, and
the latter on a picture in the Oggioni collection
in Milan.

Though born in Venice, Crivelli seems to have
worked chiefly in the March of Ancona, and
especially in and near Ascoli; there are only two
pictures of his proper to a Venetian building,
both of these being in the church of San
Sebastiano. He is said to have studied under
Jacobello del Fiore, who was painting as late at
any rate as 1436; at that time Crivelli was
probably only a boy. The latter always signed as
Carolus Crivellus Venetus; from 1490 he added
Miles, having been then knighted (Cavalière) by
Ferdinand II of Naples. He painted in tempera
only, and is seen to most advantage in subject
pictures of moderate size.

He introduced agreeable landscape backgrounds; and
was particularly partial to giving fruits and
flowers (the peach is one of his favourite fruits)
as accessories, often in pendent festoons. The
National Gallery, London is well supplied with
examples of Crivelli; the Annunciation with St
Emidius, and the Beato Ferretti (of the same
family as Pope Pius IX) in religious ecstasy, may
be specified. Another of his principal pictures is
in San Francesco di Matelica; in Berlin is a
Madonna and Saints (1491); in the Vatican Gallery
a Dead Christ, and in the Brera of Milan the
painters own portrait, with other examples.

Crivelli is a painter of marked individuality,
hard in form, crudely definite in contour; stern,
forced, energetic, almost grotesque and repellent,
in feature and expression, and yet well capable of
a prim sort of prettiness; simply vigorous in his
effect of detachment and relief, and sometimes
admitting into his pictures objects actually
raised in surface; distinct and warm in color,
with an effect at once harsh and harmonious. His
pictures gain by being seen in half-light, and at
some little distance; under favouring conditions
they grip the spectator with uncommon power. Few
artists seem to have worked with more uniformity
of purpose, or more forthright command of his
materials, so far as they go. It is surmised that
Carlo was of the same family as the painters
Donato Crivelli (who was working in 1459, and was
also a scholar of Jacobello) and Vittorio
Crivelli. Pietro Alamanni was his pupil.

==See also==
*List of painters
*Joseph Archer Crowe
*Giovanni Morelli

==Sources==
* Encyclopedia of Artists, volume 2, edited by
William H.T. Vaughan, ISBN 0-19-521572-9, 2000

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