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416: 213: 394: 115: 382: 370: 269: 20: 358: 173:" fit for the subject: the resulting two-volume work, which has been called "an encyclopedia of 15th-century Ferrarese illumination", reflects the most exquisite and extravagant courtly taste of the age. Crivelli was responsible for the majority of the illustration work. Other painters who assisted Crivelli and Russi on the illuminations include Guglielmo Giraldi, Giorgio D'Allemagna and a youthful 347:). Some of Crivelli's stylistic traits, such as his use of line in representations of clothing and clouds, also suggest Lombard influence. The elaborately decorated miniatures for the Borso Bible are characterized by saturated colouring and rich costumes that would seem to comply with Borso's luxurious tastes. Architectural spaces are rendered by means of 146:. Crivelli's own life is largely undocumented until 1451, by which time he was certainly working in Ferrara. Analysis of his personal account book between 1451 and 1457 alongside official court documents indicates that Crivelli was in charge of a busy workshop, sharing work out with assistants and colleagues. Nevertheless, records of illicit 415: 256:
Although he may have produced larger paintings while in Ferrara, none has been found. A record of a pawnbroking transaction of 1472 suggests that he may have left Ferrara abruptly, presumably in the wake of Borso's death in 1471, and perhaps attracted by the patronage of the
311:. A slightly later map of the world on a single sheet has also been attributed to him, but is now not thought to be his. Receipts show that in this period payments for his illuminations declined. He was engaged to work on manuscripts for the grand basilica of 393: 521: 658: 212: 851: 736:, Vol. 130, No. 4 (Dec., 1964), pp. 577-578, Published by: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Article DOI: 10.2307/1792324, 381: 315:, but ended up pawning parts of them (which his patrons later bought back). His last recorded work dates from 1476; by 1479 he is referred to as being dead. 468: 845:
Pfändtner, Karl-Georg (April 2011). "A Newly-Discovered Masterpiece by Taddeo Crivelli: A Portrait of Borso d'Este in the Bamberg State Library".
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From 1455 until 1461, he worked, together with Franco dei Russi, on his most prestigious commission: the miniatures for the luxuriously produced
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parts of manuscripts he was supposed to illuminate, suggesting his finances were far from stable. His last recorded work dates from 1476.
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The style of the art-work in the Borso Bible has been linked to the Ferrara school of painting which developed under the influence of
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transactions of parts of manuscripts he had been engaged to illuminate suggest that his financial situation was far from stable.
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Crivelli is known to have completed other major works in Ferrara, at least two of which survive. A 1467 illuminated copy of
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His most prestigious commission was a lavishly illustrated two-volume Bible produced between 1455 and 1461 for
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By 1473 Crivelli was working in Bologna with a fellow miniaturist, Domenico Pagliarolo (fl 1471–97), on a
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sometime in the 1420s. His father, Niccolò Crivelli, and his grandfather, Bongrazia Crivelli, were both
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maps and nautical charts, and is usually accepted as the engraver of the 1477 Bolognese edition of
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Detail from the Borso Bible, Crivelli's most significant commission. It was produced together with
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with the rest of the ducal library in 1598, and remained there until 1859, when it was taken to
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This supposition is based on a letter from Borso requesting the execution of a small painting (
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His wife Margherita bore him three sons and a daughter, Lodovica, who married the painter
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of the first book illustrated with maps, which was also the first book using engraving.
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in 1471. Borso's commission for this lavish work specifically demanded "
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in Vienna. In 1918 it was taken to Switzerland by the deposed emperor
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The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. A Series of Atlases in Facsimile
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Detail from a page of the Borso Bible displaying the
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He also took on the unfamiliar task of 465:Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este 267: 113: 98:After Borso's death in 1471 he moved to 513: 440: 353: 562:"Crivelli, Taddeo (Taddeo da Ferrara)" 165:on the occasion of his investiture as 7: 716:Landau, David, and Parshall, Peter. 567:Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 882:Taddeo Crivelli at the Getty Museum 802:. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. 657:Melograni, Anna (April–June 2008). 447:The Borso Bible was first moved to 42:1451, died by 1479), also known as 14: 414: 392: 387:Detail from the bottom of a page 380: 368: 356: 134:He appears to have been born in 130:Background and career in Ferrara 471:in 1914, it became part of the 399:Miniature in a manuscript from 830:(in Italian). Modena: Panini. 421:St. Jerome in the Desert with 1: 904:15th-century Italian painters 233:, which was commissioned for 886:digital reproduction of the 849:. St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 940: 643:. Oxford University Press. 611:. Oxford University Press. 728:; Crone, G.R., review of 363:Page from the Borso Bible 872:Digital reproduction of 734:The Geographical Journal 693:Gruyer, Gustave (1897). 522:"Bibbia di Borso d'Este" 919:Manuscript illuminators 646:(subscription required) 614:(subscription required) 602:"Bible of Borso d'Este" 241:in Oxford. 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Index


Borso Bible
Biblioteca Estense
fl.
Italian
illuminated manuscripts
illuminators
Ferrara school
engraver
Ferrara
Duke Borso d'Este
Boccaccio
Decameron
book of hours
Bologna
pawned

Este
coat of arms
Ferrara
notaries
Lombardy
pawnbroking
personal Bible
Borso d'Este
Pope Paul II
Duke of Ferrara
magnificence
Girolamo da Cremona
Domenico Ghirlandaio

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