1472 Altarpiece

[1] The work probably originated in or near Fermo, in the Marche, where the artist was active for a number of years.

In 1834 Amico Ricci wrote of a "Madonna with saints" by Crivelli from the church of San Domenico in Fermo which had been sold a few years earlier.

It is stylistically close to the artist's Massa Fermana Altarpiece.

It had five panels on the main register, topped by a Pietà which may have been flanked by four now-lost unidentified half-length saints.

[2] An early reconstruction of the work was produced in 1933 by Venturi and this was improved in 1958 by Bernard Berenson and in 1961 by Federico Zeri:[3]