This work was completed for the La Marche chapter in the collaborative book by Anna Del Conte and Val Archer, The Painter, The Cook and the Art of Cucina, London: Octopus, 2007.
‘As Le Marche is known as the “fruit basket of Italy”, it seemed natural to include a Crivelli and in Ancona we were lucky to find this little exquisite one, as it seems that the National Gallery has most of the others!’
Carlo Crivelli (c1430-c1495) was a Venetian Renaissance painter known for his symbolic use of fruit and flowers as decorative motifs. He left Venice for the Marche of Ancona by 1458 (after a conviction for adultery). Crivelli’s work is almost exclusively religious and his tempera works on panels have a linear quality that are defined and detailed, similar in style to Northern Renaissance painters, like Rogier van der Weyden, rather than the softer stylistic approach of Crivelli’s local contemporary Giovanni Bellini.
Val Archer, 2025
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