Saint Anthony of Padua
Artist
Carlo Crivelli
(Italian, ca. 1435-1495)
CultureItalian
Dateca. 1475-80
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions59 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (151.8 x 49.8 cm)
Overall, Frame: 68 1/2 × 28 × 4 in. (174 × 71.1 × 10.2 cm)
Other (Crate): 47 × 86 × 18 in. (119.4 × 218.4 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 68 1/2 × 28 × 4 in. (174 × 71.1 × 10.2 cm)
Other (Crate): 47 × 86 × 18 in. (119.4 × 218.4 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number83.585
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 202
Label TextCarlo Crivelli Italian, ca. 1435–1495 Saint Anthony of Padua, ca. 1475–80 Oil on wood A devout Saint Anthony looks heavenward, but at what? The stories attached to his life may offer a clue. Legend says that the infant Christ appeared to him in a divine vision. This narrow painting likely belonged to a multi-panel altarpiece whose central image depicted the Virgin and Child. Saint Anthony would have been offering his prayers to them. Famed for his striking realism, Carlo Crivelli treats every detail of this figure with his precise style—from the veins in the saint’s forehead to the turnings of his rope belt. The lilies, which symbolize Anthony’s purity, are so crisply defined that they almost look like chiseled stone. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.585 ProvenanceContini Bonacossi Collection, Florence; E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to The Chrysler Museum, 1983. Exhibition History"Carlo Crivelli e i Crivelleschi," Venice, Palazzo Ducale, June 10 - Oct. 10, 1961. (Exhib. cat. no. 22). "From Veneziano to Pollock: Ten Masterworks," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, May 18 - June 24, 1984. (Exhib. cat. pp.8-9). "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. "Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, October 10, 2015 - March 6, 2016.Published ReferencesBernard Berenson, _Italian Pictures of the Renaissance_ Vol. I (London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1957), 69. Anna Bovero. _Tutta la Pittura del Crivelli_. Milan. 1961: p. 88, fig. 155. Pietro Zampetti. _Carlo Crivelli_. Milan: Aldo Martello Editore. 1961: no. 164. Piero Zampetti. _Carlo Crivelli e I Crivelleschi_, exhibition catalog, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1961, no. 22. Anna Bovero. "Five Italian Exhibitions," _Connoisseur_. CXLVIII. 11/1961: pp. 223-224, fig. 5. Anna Bovero. _L'Opera Completa del Crivelli_. Milan: Rizzoli Editore. 1975:p. 92, fig. 94. Eric Zafran. "From the Renaissance to the Grand Tour," _Apollo_. Volume 107, no. 194. 04/1978:pp. 4-15, ill. Thomas W. Sokolowski and Thomas W. Styron. _From Veneziano to Pollock_, exhibition catalogue, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1983, p. 8-9. David W. Steadman, Director. "Ten Masterworks!" _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_. Vol. 14, no. 6. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum. 06/1984. Supplément. "La Chronique des Arts: Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1984," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_. VI Période, Tome CV, no. 1394. 03/1985: pp. 26-75. Jefferson C. Harrison. "Italian Art - Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century," _The Chrysler Museum Gallery Guide_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum. 1987. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1991, p. 5, #4. Stephen J. Campell, ed., _Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice_ (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Boston, in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2015) 174-175, cat. no. 13.
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