Maria Magdalena, Carlo Crivelli, 1480, Italy, [no. 22-02-09]

Maria Magdalena, 1480, Carlo Crivelli,
Rijksmuseum A’dam
ARTWORK Collection
[no. 22-02-09]

Carlo Crivelli (1430 – 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 Squarcione, Mantegna. He left the Veneto by 1458 and spent most of the
remainder of his career in the March of Ancona, where he developed a distinctive personal style
that contrasts with that of his Venetian contemporary Giovanny Bellini.
Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli,
tempera on panel.
With Carlo Crivelli, the so-called ‘International Gothic’ style experienced its final flowering in Italy.
This perfect preserved panel was painted towards the end of his career. It served as the altarpiece of a provincial church dedicated to Mary Magdalene in the sparsely populated rural
area if the Marches where Crivelli lived.