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The Hermitage in November will bring "The Annunciation" by Carlo Crivelli...

Crivelli, Carlo (Crivelli, Carlo) (between 1430 and 1435 - ca. 1495), Italian painter, representative of the Venetian school. The life Crivelli, little is known reliably. Perhaps he was born in Venice. The earliest extant dated works Crivelli - polyptych made it to the church of San Silvestro in the town of Fermanagh in the Province of Massa Marche (completed in 1468). In 1490 Prince Ferdinand of Capua granted him the title of nobility, probably not for the artistic achievements and for his political beliefs. At that time Crivelli was living in Ascoli Piceno.

Like his contemporary, the Venetian Giovanni Bellini, Crivelli experienced in his work a strong influence of the Padua school, whose leading exponents were Skvarchone Francesco and Andrea Mantegna, as well as some other artists such as Rogier van der Weyden, Gentile da Fabriano and Antonello da Messina . Significant difference between the style of Bellini and Crivelli explained partly by the fact that the latter adopted many things with Antonio Vivarini. For Crivelli painting, as well as for paintings Vivarini, characterized by a love for decorative effects and acute linearity. Using illyuzionisticheski techniques also may be a consequence of the influence Vivarini. Among the most famous paintings Crivelli The Annunciation (1486, London, National Gallery), Crucifixion (c. 1490, Milan, Brera Gallery) and Madonna with a candle (1492 , ibid.) For works of the master characteristic ornamentation, the attention to detail, accuracy and rigidity in the interpretation of form and expression, which is close in spirit to the late Gothic.

Whipper BR Italian Renaissance. XIII-XVI Century, Vols. 1-2. M., 1977