like painting. The Madonna is delicate,
almost affected in her refinement. Her long fingers hold the Child's
garment with the extreme of dainty precision, the croziers and rings of
the saints and bishops are embossed with gold and real jewels. The
flowers in the panel of "The Immaculate Conception," which hangs beside
it, are twisted into heads of mythological beasts and grotesques or
cherubs; but Crivelli has plenty of strength, and his male saints have
vigorous, bony limbs and fierce fanatical eyes. It is, however, in his
colour that he charms us most, and though he does not touch the real
fount, he is of all the earlier school the most remarkable for subtle
tender tones and lovely harmonies of olive-greens and faded rose and
cream embossed with gold.

Crivelli continued executing one great ancona after another, limiting
his progress to perfecting his technique, and his influence was most
deeply felt by such Umbrian painters as Lorenzo di San Severino and
Niccola Alunno. The honours paid him testify to the reputation he
acquired. He was created a knight and presented with a golden laurel
wreath. But though he never, that we can hear of, revisited his native
State, he always adds _Venetus_ to the signature on his paintings, a
fact which tells us that far from Venice and in provincial districts,
her prestige was felt and gave his work an enhanced commercial value.
He had no after-influence upon the Venetian School, and in this respect
is interesting as an example of the tenacity exercised by the
Squarcionesque methods, when, unchecked by any counter-attraction, they
came to act upon a very different temperament; for in his love of grace
and beauty and of rich effects, and especially in his intensity of
mystic feeling, Crivelli is a true Venetian and has no natural affinity
with the classic spirit of the Paduans.

PRINCIPAL WORKS

Venice. SS. Jerome and Augustine.
Ascoli. Duomo: Altarpiece and Pieta.
Berlin. Madonna and six Saints.
London. Pieta; The Blessed Ferretti; Madonna and Saints; Annunciation;
Ancona in thirteen compartments; The Immaculate Conception.
Mr. Benson: Madonna.
Sir Francis Cook: Madonna enthroned.
Mond Collection: SS. Peter and Paul.
Lord Northbrook: Madonna; Resurrection; Saints; Crucifixion;
Madonna; Madonna and Saints.
Milan. Brera: SS. James, Bernardino, and Pellegrino; SS. Anthony Abbot,
Jerome, and Andrew.