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『リンゴを持つ聖母子』(リンゴをもつせいぼし、伊: Madonna col Bambino che regge una mela、英: Madonna and Child with an Apple)は、イタリア初期ルネサンスの画家カルロ・クリヴェッリが1480年ごろ、金地の板にテンペラで制作した絵画である。1882年にジョン・ジョーンズ (John Jones) 氏から遺贈されて以来、ロンドンのヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館に所蔵されている。それ以前の来歴は不明である。「OPVS CAROLI CRIVELLI VENETI (ヴェネツィアのカルロ・クリヴェッリの作品)」というラテン語の署名が記されている。
Carlo Crivelli (ca. 1430-1495) was probably born in Venice where he may have been the pupil of Jacopo del Fiore or Giambono but his style shows also the influence of the school of Squarcione in Padua, especially his pupils: Mantegna, Marco Zoppo and Giorgio Schiavone. He had to flee Venice quite soon in his career and was living by 1465 in Zara in Dalmatia (now Zadar, Croatia), then a province of the Venetian Republic. By 1483 he had settled in Ascoli Piceno, the largest city in the southern Marches, where he died in 1495.
This painting is a small devotional picture showing a Madonna and Child embraced, standing before a parapet. The Madonna wears a lavish gilded stucco mantle in the Gothic fashion and stands before a dark red embroidered cloth of honour with on top a swag of fruits. In the background is a distant hilly landscape with green trees on the left and a leafless tree on the right, enlivened by the deep blue hues of the sky. Fruits and flowers in this composition enclose Christian symbolic meanings alluding to the life of Christ and are not therefore mere decorative devices. Pictures of this kind were very popular in the 15th century and appear to constitute an important part of Crivelli’s oeuvre.
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