How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Buy a print or image licence
You can purchase this reproduction
If you have any products in your basket we recommend that you complete your purchase from Art UK before you leave our site to avoid losing your purchases.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
This tall, narrow panel once hung over the tomb of a Franciscan holy man, the Blessed Gabriele Ferretti (d. 1456). Gabriele was Superior of the small convent of San Francesco in Alto outside Ancona in the Italian Marche. He was famous locally for his fervent piety and for his visions of the Virgin, who appears here floating in the sky in a golden mandorla (oval frame; literally ‘almond shaped’ in Italian). The location impacted the painting’s shape and composition. It was hung around seven or eight feet above the ground, in the first left corner of the church – it would have been seen from below and to the right as you entered the building. The direction of the light, the sloping letters of Crivelli’s signature and the road’s strong slanting line all take account of this.
Title
The Vision of the Blessed Gabriele
Date
probably about 1489
Medium
Egg and oil on poplar
Measurements
H 141 x W 87 cm
Accession number
NG668
Acquisition method
Bought, 1861
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
-
The Virgin and Child Victoria and Albert Museum -
St John the Baptist Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Saint Roch The Wallace Collection -
Saint Thomas Aquinas The National Gallery, London -
Saint Peter The National Gallery, London -
La Madonna della Rondine (The Madonna of the Swallow) The National Gallery, London -
The Dead Christ supported by Two Angels The National Gallery, London - 20 more
