Norma - Sferisterio Festival 2016 Macerata

23 and 29 July, 7 August 2016

Opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani, based on the tragedy Norma, L'Infanticide of Louis-Alexandre Soumet.

Director: Michele Gamba
Directed by: Luigi Di Gangi and Ugo Giacomazzi
Scene: Federica Parolini
Costumes: Daniela Cernigliaro
Norma: Maria José Siri
Oroveso: Nicola Ulivieri
Adalgisa: Sonia Ganassi
Pollio: Rubens Pellizzari

In the Pinacoteca di Macerata you can also see The Madonna with Child,  painted with tempera on wood, then transferred to canvas, by Carlo Crivelli (1470)

Carlo Crivelli - National Gallery, London

Carlo Crivelli

about 1430/5 - about 1494

Crivelli was born in Venice and probably trained with Squarcione in Padua. He spent most of his life in the Marches (eastern central Italy), after periods in Venice and Zara. Crivelli was active as a painter by 1457 when he was condemned in Venice for adultery. He was very successful as a maker of altarpieces in the Marches. These are especially well represented in the Collection.

Crivelli was influenced by the Vivarini at an early stage. From Squarcione, or one of his pupils such as Giorgio Schiavone, Crivelli could learn simulated marble architecture; festoons of fruit; parchment cartellini and music-making putti. Venetian painting up to this point had been dominated by the Late Gothic style, such as that of Jacopo Bellini and his son Gentile.

Crivelli was a fine technical painter and his pictures are in a good state of preservation. He had a strong linear decorative sense and was a brilliant colourist. His work was particularly appreciated in the 19th century, as witnessed by the price paid for the Gallery's 'Madonna della Rondine'.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/carlo-crivelli