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1430-1490
Carlo Crivelli was a Venetian-born painter who spent nearly his entire career away from Venice, working mainly in the March of Ancona and above all Ascoli Piceno after leaving the Veneto around 1458. Trained amid the influences of the Vivarini and the Paduan circle of Squarcione and Mantegna, he nonetheless resisted the naturalistic currents of his time, painting in tempera on panel with gilded, punched backgrounds long after oil had become fashionable elsewhere. His altarpieces and Madonnas, made chiefly for Franciscan and Dominican patrons, combine jewel-like ornament, festoons of fruit, and trompe-l'œil detail with an intense, sometimes disturbing realism of suffering. Signed pictures survive from 1468 to 1493, though most of his large polyptychs were later dismantled and their panels dispersed to museums across Europe and America. Neglected after his death and unmentioned by Vasari, he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites and remains admired today for his singular, almost hallucinatory decorative intensity.