Carlo Crivelli

Artist Biography

Carlo Crivelli was an Italian painter of art, prints and posters born in Venice and always signed himself as a Venetian, but he spent most of his career working in the Marches, particularly at Asconi Picelo, and he also lived for some time at Zara in Dalmatia (now Croatia).

His art, prints and posters are all of religious subjects, done in an elaborate, old-fashioned style that owes much to the wiry Paduan tradition of Squarcione and Mantegna and yet is highly distinctive.

Their dense ornamentation is often increased by the use of gesso decoration combined with the paint. The finest collection of his art, prints and posters is in the National Gallery in London and includes the delightful and much reproduced Annunciation (1486).

Carlo Crivelli Art, Prints and Posters Collection