Vittore crivelli biography of donald
BIOGRAPHY Vittore Crivelli (Venice?...
Vittore Crivelli
BIOGRAPHY Vittore Crivelli (Venice?
Carlo Crivelli, son of art and brother of the painter Vittore (with whom he had bad relations but from whom he was always followed and imitated).
/) Vittore Crivelli, younger brother of the more famous Carlo, was probably born in Venice around His father, Giacomo, was also a painter; though we know nothing of his activity and production, it is possible that it was he who introduced his sons to an artistic career.
Nevertheless, the first document to mention Vittore is from , when he is witness of a friar taking the habit in the church of Saint James in Zadar. He stayed in that city until , when he moved to the Marches, at the service of Ludovico Euffreducci of Fermo.
During his years in Dalmatia he had started quite an active workshop, which produced several paintings for private devotion and at least one polyptych, now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow but documented in as a work for the very same Saint James in Zadar.
In the bishop of Zadar sent for him to work as an architect on the drawings for the façade of Saint Mary’s church. He arrived in the Marches more than a decad