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Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli

 

Personal Details

Name

Carlo Crivelli

Place of birth

Venice

Date of Birth

1435

Date of Death

1495

Field

Painting

Nationality

Italian



Career:

   He painted in tempera only, despite the increasing popularity of oil painting during his life-time, and on panels, though some of his paintings have been transferred to canvas. His predilection for decoratively punched gilded backgrounds is one of the marks of the conservative taste, in part imposed by his patrons. He was a vegetarian. Of his early polyptychs, only one, the altarpiece from Ascoli Piceno, survives complete in its original frame; all the others have been disassembled and their panels and predella scenes are divided among the world's museums.

   Works Of Carlo Crivelli:

Work done by Carlo Crivelli

Work done by Carlo Crivelli

   Often filled with images of suffering, such as gaping wounds in Christ's hands and side and the mouths of mourners twisted in agony, Crivelli's work appropriately fulfills the spiritual needs of his patrons. These ultra-realistic, sometimes disturbing qualities have often led critics to label Crivelli's paintings "grotesque", much like his fellow Northern Italian painter, Cosimo Tura.