The Life and Work of Taddeo Crivelli Taddeo Crivelli, also known as Taddeo da Ferrara, remains a central figure for anyone studying the evolution of fifteenth-century Italian manuscript illumination. Active from at least 1451 until his death by 1479, he operated within the Ferrara school, a movement that defined the visual language of the era. His work represents a specific technical shift where the decorative intensity of the Gothic…