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Source Description
These refined figures of St. Benedict and St. John the Baptist are from an altarpiece commissioned in 1487 for the high altar of the church of St. Giuliano in the town of Fermo on the Adriatic coast. Vittore was a follower of his more famous brother Carlo Crivelli. These figures are more staid than those of this brother but the emphasis on drawing visible through the paint is like his brother's; for example the curly hair of John's chest and the prominence of the shading using parallel lines running upper right to lower right. That orientation tells that he was right-handed!
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Document identity
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27786
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Saint Benedict and Saint John the Baptist
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drawing
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27786
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drawing
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title
Saint Benedict and Saint John the Baptist
description
These refined figures of St. Benedict and St. John the Baptist are from an altarpiece commissioned in 1487 for the high altar of the church of St. Giuliano in the town of Fermo on the Adriatic coast. Vittore was a follower of his more famous brother Carlo Crivelli. These figures are more staid than those of this brother but the emphasis on drawing visible through the paint is like his brother's; for example the curly hair of John's chest and the prominence of the shading using parallel lines running upper right to lower right. That orientation tells that he was right-handed!
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 68-69; 1897 catalogue: no. 46, as Verrocchio]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1487-1492 (Renaissance)
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
panel paintings
polyptychs
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5
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5
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
123.4
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39.4
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1
dimensionsRaw
St. Benedict painted surface H: 48 9/16 x W: 15 1/2 x Approx. D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (123.4 x 39.4 x 1 cm); St. John painted surface H: 48 1/2 x W: 15 5/8 x D excluding cradle: 1/2 in. (123.2 x 39.7 x 1.2 cm)
Source extras
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Tempera with gold leaf and traces of oil paint on panel
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4258
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none
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