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The work of Carlo Crivelli has a place apart in Italian painting.
A Venetian by birth, Crivelli always proclaimed his origins by signing himself, "Venetus," although he left Venice after a murder in which he had been implicated.
The sumptuous gold-embroidered brocades worn by his Virgin , and the luxuriant garlands of flowers and fruits with whom he surrounds her are diret borrowings from the repertory already exploited by Byzntium.
The Virgin, virtually the exclusive subject of his work, seems indifferent to her background of rich still lives tha monopolise the whole of the painting.
Their freedom and fancifulness compensate for any weakness in composition.
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