CRIVELLI, CARLO, Venetian painter, was born between He died after 1493. Though born in Venice, Crivelli worked chiefly in the March of Ancona, and especially in and near Ascoli. He was probably an offspring of the Murano school and was influenced by Squarcione's academy at Padua. He signed as "Carolus Crivellus Venetus" ; from 1490 he added "Miles," having been then knighted ("Cavaliere") by Ferdinand II. of Naples. Among his earliest works are the "Madonna" in the Verona mu seum and an altarpiece at the Municipio of Mazza Fermana (1468). The National Gallery in London has fine examples of Crivelli; in Berlin is a "Madonna and Saints" (1491) ; in the Vati can Gallery a "Dead Christ"; and the Brera of Milan contains sev eral examples, among which is his masterpiece of later years, "The Coronation of the Virgin" . Crivelli is a painter of marked individuality—hard in form, crudely definite in contour; stern, forced, energetic, yet well capable of a prim sort of prettiness; and sometimes admitting into his pictures objects actually raised in surface; distinct and warm in colour, with an effect at once harsh and harmonious. It is surmised that Carlo was of the same family as the painters Jacopo and Vittorio Crivelli. Pietro Alamanni was his pupil.
See, besides, Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Berenson, Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1899) ; Morelli, Italian Painters (1892-93) ; Rush forth, Carlo Crivelli (1900).
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