european & american art

Four Saints, Carlo Crivelli

These panels are thought to be part of a set of twelve painted by Carlo Crivelli for the cathedral in Camerino, Italy. Four are now owned by the Denver Art Museum, and the central panel is at a museum in Milan, the Pinacoteca di Brera. Crivelli lived in a part of Italy isolated from many of the stylistic and technical innovations of the Renaissance, and, as a result, many elements of his artwork are aligned with earlier traditions. Instead of adopting oil by itself as a medium, he remained faithful to the traditional tempera on panel technique and continued to rely on gesso and flat gold backgrounds.

Spanish Colonial Art