Carlo Crivelli and workshop

This entry stands for an attribution formula. It credits pictures whose design and principal figures are Carlo Crivelli's, while helpers in his workshop took a share of the painting. The Vatican Pinacoteca uses its own wording of it on a gallery label, Carlo Crivelli e aiuti, Carlo Crivelli and assistants.

A large altarpiece in the Marche in the 1480s was a joint undertaking. Panels and carved frames had to be built, gold leaf laid and tooled, and lesser saints, ornament and small scenes could be left to other hands. Carlo's brother Vittore, probably a few years younger and also born in Venice, had settled at Fermo by 1481 and painted in a manner so close to Carlo's that pictures have moved from one brother's name to the other's. Pietro Alamanno, a painter from Austria who worked at Ascoli Piceno, followed the same manner. Exactly where the master's brush stops can rarely be proved, and this formula is how a catalogue says so.