Carlo Crivelli

"Venetian artist Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430-1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This book, drawing on extensive research in Venice and the Marches, the region of central Italy that Crivelli dominated artistically from 1468 until his death in 1495, 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…