Word: crivelli
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...first items in the quiz was a Crivelli Pieta, and the trick was to tell what part was original and what part had been restored. Except for certain slick parts, most of the crackled surface seemed beyond reproach. It might even have fooled the Fogg, had the man who donated the painting not also given two photographs of it. one taken in 1907 and the other in 1909. The earlier photograph showed that before restoration about half of Christ's body had peeled...
Besides Aristotle, the Erickson collection contained two other Rembrandts. A handsome Prince of Orange went to Knoedler's for $110,000, and a small Portrait of an Old Man was snagged by a London dealer for $180,000. Crivelli's 1472 Madonna and Child, which British Critic Roger Fry said was "one of Crivelli's greatest designs," brought $220,000; in 1886 it had been sold at Christie's in London for ?131.5. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts paid $125,000 for Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Confraternity...
...Paccagnini persisted; when London's National Gallery agreed to send its Agony in the Garden (see color) only if the castle were air-conditioned. Pacca gnini got it air-conditioned. Thus the show-shares, with the exhibition in Venice of Mantegna's contemporary Carlo Crivelli (TIME, July 14) the honor of being the most exciting now on view in Italy...
...Sense of Drama. Like Crivelli. Man tegna, the son of a carpenter, studied under the strict Paduan master, Francesco Squarcione. He was such a precocious pupil that, at the age of 17, he got a commission to do a number of frescoes in Padua's Ovetari Chapel. From then on his future seemed secure. He married the daughter of the painter Jacopo Bellini; the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga made him a knight, and Lorenzo the Magnificent sang his praises...
...static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity, and mystical devotion . . . He takes rank with the most genuine artists of all times and countries, and does not weary even when 'great masters' grow tedious...