Carlo Crivelli Book

Venetian artist Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430â??1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This absorbing book, drawing on extensive research in Venice and the Marches, the region of central Italy that Crivelli dominated artistically from 1468 until his death, examines his paintings in depth and traces the fundamental influences of the Vivarini, of Squarcione and Mantegna, and later of Flemish art.Ronald Lightbown, eminent historian of Italian Renaissance art, interweaves stylistic and iconographical analysis of Crivelliâ??s work with historical and cultural background. The author uncovers the reasons that led patrons to choose the saints that figured in Crivelliâ??s altarpieces, discusses the initiations of new cults and the devising of an iconography for them, and demonstrates Crivelliâ??s independence from clerical dictation in the symbolism of his still-life pictures.Ronald Lightbown was Keeper of the Library and, later, Keeper of the Department of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until 1989. He is the author of the standard works on Botticelli, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca.Read More