The Crucifixion

• George G. Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works, vol. 2, London, 1888, p. 227.
• Algernon Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, vol. 1, London, 1918, p. 184.
• Franz Drey, Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule, Munich, 1927, pp. 89–90, 147, pl. LXXIV.
• W. R. Deusch, “Die Sammlung Spiridon – Paris,” Kunst und Künstler 27 (1929), p. 331 (ill.).
• Raimond van Marle, “Die Sammlung Joseph Spiridon,” Der Cicerone 21 (1929), p. 187, fig. 11.
• Luitpold Dussler, “Die italienischen Bilder der sammlung Spiridon,” Pantheon (1929), p. 166.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “A Crucifixion by Carlo Crivelli,” Art Institute Bulletin 23 (1929), pp. 145–47, cover ill.; reprinted as “Crivelli from the Spiridon Sale in Chicago,” Art News 28 (1929), pp. 3 (ill.), 6.
• Frida Schottmüller, “Bilder der Sammlung Spiridon,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 63 (1929), p. 27(ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 3 (ill.).
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 161.
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, ‘Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 12 (ill.), 60.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 20.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 139.
• Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 18, 1936, pp. 59–60 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Picture Book: Masterpieces of Painting, XV and XVI Centuries in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 10–11 (ill).
• R[odolfo] P[allucchini], “Dipinti veneziani a Chicago, Detroit, Toledo e Hartford,” Arte veneta 1 (1947), p. 147.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p. 75.
• Ugo Galetti and Ettore Camesasca, Enciclopedia della pittura italiana, vol. 1, Milan, 1950, p. 760.
• Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche, Urbino, 1952, p. 67.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “La pittura italiana al’Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 695 (ill.), 697.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 111.
• Anna Bovero, Tutta la pittura del Crivelli, Milan, 1961, p. 77, pl. 113.
• Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae, Munich, 1961, p. 517.
• Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Milan, 1961, pp. 89–90, fig. 101.
• Pietro Zampetti, La pittura marchigiana da Gentile a Raffaello, Milan, 1969, p. 181; Eng. ed., Paintings from the Marches: Gentile to Raphael, London, 1971, p. 179.
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 60, 292, 570.
• Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, dall’ XI al XX secolo, 11 vols., Turin, 1972–76, vol. 4, p. 78.
• Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Florence, 1986, p. 284, pl. 73.
• Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago; a catalogue of the collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 72–5, ill.
• Gianno Galiardi, L’Annunciazione di Carlo Crivelli al Ascoli, exh. cat. Ascoli Piceno, 1996, p. 6.
• Ronald Lightbown, Carlo Crivelli, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 350–2, 430.
• Stephen J. Campbell, ed., Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, exh. cat., Boston, 2016, pp. 202-205.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 115.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 27.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, February 1942, no cat.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachuesetts, Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, Oct. 22, 2015-Jan. 25, 2016.

Alexander Barker (died 1874) and his executors, London; sold Christie’s, London, June 21, 1879, no. 472, to Lesser for £100 16s [annotated catalogue at Frick Art Reference Library]. Baron E. de Beurnonville, Paris; offered for sale but bought in, Charles Pillet, Paris, May 9–16, 1881, no. 632; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21–22, 1883, no.126, for Fr 2,800 [Mireur 1911]. Joseph Spiridon, Rome, probably by 1883 [the catalogue of the 1929 Spiridon sale erroneously states that it was acquired from Beurnonville in 1876]; sold Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, May 31, 1929, no. 15, pl. 23, to Knoedler for 250,000 marks [annotated catalogue at Getty Center]; sold by Knoedler, London, to Art Institute, 1929.