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This bearded saint is one of four in the upper tier of a polyptych (a multi-panelled altarpiece) which Crivelli painted in 1476 for the high altar of the Dominican Church in Ascoli Piceno in the Italian Marche. He is Saint Andrew, the first Apostle, and a particular favourite of the Dominican Order as a preacher and a converter of non-Christians. Crivelli has shown him in his usual guise as an old man, clasping a cross and a Gospel book.

In a masterly display of foreshortening – a visual trick of distorting objects so that they seem to recede into the picture – Crivelli has painted the cross and the fluttering pages of the book at a dramatically acute angle. A love of realistic detail – the nails in the cross, the wrinkled edges of the parchment pages, the crow’s feet around the saint’s eyes – is typical of Crivelli.