The painting belonged to the limit of a large altar, established in 1493 in the church of St. Francis Fabriano. Two leaflets are in the Esztergom Christian Museum, two in the Roman Castle of Sant’Angelo and six in the Jacques-Andre Museum in Paris. The two main paintings – “The Coronation of Mary” and “Lamentation of Christ” – which are the main of the late creations of Crivelli, are in the Milan Gallery of Brera. According to our information, this altar is the last, final work in the work of Krivelli.
Works, which were considered his later works, belong to the brush of his younger brother – Vittorio Crivelli. The picture shown here shows Saint Bernardine of Siena, who was almost a contemporary of Carlo Crivelli. The image of the saint is a little caricatured, narococcal. It is evident that, creating his paintings for the altar, Krivelli enjoyed great pleasure and joy from unusual techniques of the image, which sometimes seem strange. For example, respectable elders do not know what to do about excitement, their movements are fussy, fussy.
The strange form of the book in the hand of St. Bernardin, according to the author’s intention, should cause the illusion of perspective, but the opposite happens: it violates all the rules and laws of the right perspective. The authorship of the paintings of this altar, many questioned, suggesting that their creation involved younger brother Krivelli – Vittorio. However, they are so superior to the work of Vittorio that they can not be attributed to his work.
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