1494
tempera
panel
From the collection of Vatican Museums
Pala di San Pietro di Muralto is a 1494 tempera by Carlo Crivelli, a Early Renaissance work, held at Vatican Museums.
This painting is a large, half-circle shaped artwork. It features a group of people, some in robes, gathered around a woman holding a baby. The woman is seated on a throne, and the people around her appear to be paying their respects. The painting is richly detailed, with intricate patterns and designs on the clothing and backgrounds. The colors are muted, with earthy tones dominating the palette. The overall effect is one of reverence and solemnity. If you're interested in learning more about the artist who created this work, you might want to look up Carlo Crivelli.
The San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece or San Pietro degli Osservanti Altarpiece is a 1488–1489 tempera and gold on panel altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli and his studio, named after the Dominican church in Camerino in which it originally hung, and now divided between a number of American and European museums.
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On 8 November 1483 the artist committed to paint a multi-panel altarpiece for Mariano Ronci as large and beautiful as the 1482 San Domenico di Camerino Altarpiece. The work was not produced quickly, but on 28 October 1488 he signed a contract with Ronci's heir Mariano Meneconi by which he was given a year to paint it in return for 100 florins paid in instalments. The work had already been moved to the church of San Francesco in Camerino by the start of the 16th century after its original home was turned into a fort by Cesare Borgia's occupying forces. After an earthquake in 1799 destroyed or…
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The main work features Saint Bonaventure, Francis of Assisi and Giovanni da Capestrano on the left, and Louis of Toulouse, Saint Augustine and Blessed James of the Marches on the right. This is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. As demonstrated in 1961 by Federico Zeri, the work originally had a lunette of a Pietà with Mary Magdalene, John the Apostle, and the Virgin Mary at the top. This is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome. This was accompanied by a cornice of six small paintings, showing seven saints, all of which were removed before it was taken to the Pinacoteca di Brera. Two of…
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Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430 – c. 1495) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini,…
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