‘Camp,’ wrote Susan Sontag, ‘is the paintings of Carlo Crivelli, with their real jewels and trompe-l’oeil insects and cracks in the masonry.’ She didn’t even mention the renaissance painter’s curious cucumber fetish. Nor the unwittingly comedic homoeroticism of his portrait of Saint Roch, one stocking rolled down coquettishly to reveal a decorous inner-thigh wound.
Stuart Jeffries
Renaissance radical: Carlo Crivelli – Shadows on the Sky at Ikon Gallery reviewed
The Venetian artist's ideas and innovations are finally being taking seriously

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