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Carlo Crivelli Biography

Carlo Crivelli

(Venice, c .1430-Ascoli Piceno, c .1495) Italian painter.In 1474 he moved to Marche and directed an important workshop that executed polyptychs for the churches and convents of the region, in a style that combined Renaissance foreshortenings, the Mantegna style and the decorative cadences of late Gothic ( Polyptych of Saint Sylvester, Annunciation , Pieta , Magdalena ).

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