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Title:
Saint Francis
Object name(s):
Picture; Italian
Brief description:
This praying saint comes from the upper tier of a large polyptych (multi-panelled altarpiece) which Crivelli painted in 1476 for the high altar of the church of San Domenico, in Ascoli Piceno in the Italian Marche. This is Saint Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order -- friars who lived in towns and cities to provide educated preachers and teachers for a growing urban population.The austere grey of his habit with its crisp, deep folds forms a striking contrast to the glittering damask patterns tooled into the gilded background. Crivelli was skilled at exploiting the optical effects of the different gold surfaces, which would have flickered and shone in the candlelight of a medieval church, making the smooth gold and raised decoration of Francis's halo act as a spotlight on his head.
Collection:
National Gallery
Accession date:
1868-01-01
Date - earliest / single:
1868
Date - latest:
1868
Credit line:
Bought, 1868
Current location:
Room 10
Current reproduction location:
3/53/790/680/mid_N-0788-06-000034.jpg
Current reproduction location:
858/590/115/mid_N-0788-06-000011.jpg
Current reproduction location:
960/876/664/mid_N-0788-06-000032.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
61.00
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
39.50
Form:
Veneer
Material:
egg tempera on wood
Material:
egg tempera
Material:
poplar
Object name:
Picture; Italian
Object production date:
1476
Date - earliest / single:
1476
Date - latest:
1476
Object production date:
Date - period:
1450-99
Object production person:
Carlo Crivelli
Person's birth date:
1430
Person's death date:
1494
Other number:
NG788.6
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0FRD-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
NG788.6
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
NG788
Other number type:
Previous Object Number
Other number:
000-03V6-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
ng2788.06
Other number type:
sort number
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
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Style:
early Renaissance
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
Reference details:
161-5
Reference note:
Latest catalogue
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
Reference details:
124-7
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
Reference details:
161
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places
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161
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User's reference:
Pitture italiane del Rinascimento: Catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi
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139
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User's reference:
L'opera completa del Crivelli
Reference details:
92-93
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User's reference:
Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule
Reference details:
19, 62-80, 132
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User's reference:
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting: A Study in Material Culture
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354
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User's reference:
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Reference details:
334
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User's reference:
'It will form such an Ornament for Our Gallery': La National Gallery e la pittura de Carlo Crivelli (1856-1868)
Reference details:
1-22
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User's reference:
Storia pittorica della italia dal risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del XVIII secolo
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3.19
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reference
User's reference:
Ascoli in prospettiva: Colle sue più singolari pitture, sculture e architetture
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76
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User's reference:
The Earlier Italian Schools
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161-5
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User's reference:
Carlo Crivelli
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211
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User's reference:
Saggio delle cose ascolane e de'vescovi di Ascoli nel Piceno dalla fondazione della città sino… all'anno mille settecento sessanta sei
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349
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User's reference:
Descrizione delle pitture, sculture, architetture ed altre cose rare della insigne città di Ascoli nella Marca
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44-5
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User's reference:
Répertoire de peintres du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance (1250-1580)
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213
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User's reference:
Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della Marca di Ancona
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211
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User's reference:
Quelques tableaux de la galerie Rinuccini décrits et illustrés
Reference details:
17-20
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User's reference:
Carlo Crivelli
Reference details:
90
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
L'arte nelle Marche
Reference details:
2.388-90
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User's reference:
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle: Conoscitore e conservatore: Atti del convegno
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User's reference:
Le origini della pittura veneziana 1300-1500
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201-2
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User's reference:
Storia dell'arte italiana
Reference details:
7.3.348, 7.3.350, 7.3.370-6
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User's reference:
Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche
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61-2
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User's reference:
Carlo Crivelli
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User's reference:
Crivelli
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21
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User's reference:
Giorno per giorno nella pittura: Scritti sull'arte dell'Italia centrale e meridionale dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento
Reference details:
166-7
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User's reference:
Francesco Saverio de Zelada (1717-1801)
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User's reference:
Cinque schede per Carlo Crivelli
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Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-70)
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26
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User's reference:
Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 /Scott Nethersole.
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 80 (p. 107)
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User's reference:
If the paintings could talk… / Michael Wilson ; with a foreword by Andrew Marr.
Reference details:
Ill. (p. 67)
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