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...late Bernard Berenson had nothing but affection for the work of the isth century Italian Artist Carlo Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice...
...Carlo Crivelli bounds into history with an entry in the ledger of the Venetian court, which on March 7, 1457, fined him 200 lire and sentenced him to six months in prison. The sentence was not particularly harsh, for Crivelli, it seems, had abducted a married lady named Tarsia and kept her hidden in his brother's house for months. The court records refer to him as a painter, and historians think that he may have been about 25 at the time. But aside from this adventure in "abduction, adultery and concubinage," the few scraps known about Crivelli indicate...
...Loner. Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
They were attributes prized by his contemporaries. Prince Ferdinand of Capua, for instance, made Crivelli a knight, and in his later years Crivelli proudly signed his paintings with his Latin title "Miles." But essentially, he was a loner. Though he had lived in Venice, he spent most of his life in the hilly region called The Marches on the Adriatic. There he worked alone, perfecting a style that has intrigued and puzzled critics ever since...
Valued conservatively at $3,000,000, the collection ranged from a delicate Madonna and Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...