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- Title
La tela di Carlo Crivelli e il sottile fil rouge con Venezia tardogotica.
- Authors
De Luca, Daphne
- Abstract
The restoration performed in 2022 confirmed that the Madonna and Child of Macerata by Carlo Crivelli was unequivocally originally painted on canvas, as Pietro Zampetti already suspected in 1961. The nature of the support forces academics to re-examine the painter’s production, also from a technical point of view, and confirms the use of canvases for devotional paintings even in the 15th century. The painter’s knowledge of this technique, as well as other significant technical details such as the treatment of gilding, found in the small painting in Macerata and generally in other of his works, may help provide information on Crivelli’s early apprenticeship in Venice. The early use of canvas, the enamelled backgrounds, the gilded dust sprinkled on haloes and the refined texturing of metal foils seems to establish a thin fil rouge between Crivelli and his Venice. A bond that unites our painter to Jacopo Bellini and his family, but even earlier to Gentile da Fabriano, the innovator of painting in Venice just as Carlo revitalised the artistic environment of the Marche.
- Subjects
METAL foils; FIFTEENTH century; DUST; CANVAS; APPRENTICESHIP programs
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2024, p25
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/3501