Get a Crespi Certificate of Authenticity for your painting or a COA for your Crespi drawing or sculpture.

For all your Crespi artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

How to get a Crespi Certificate of Authenticity is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Crespi painting, drawing or sculpture.

If you want to sell your Crespi painting, drawing or sculpture use our selling services. We offer Crespi selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Crespi and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Crespi experts and Crespi certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Crespi artworks.

Our Crespi paintings, drawings and sculptures authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Crespi certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Crespi painting, drawing or sculpture anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Crespi paintings, drawings or sculpture take longer.

Our clients include Crespi collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Giovanni Crespi art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Giovanni Crespi or we will sell it for you.

Giovanni Crespi, called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to be living in Milan.

True to the Counter-Reformation piety zealously expressed in Milanese art of his time, his paintings focus on mysteries and mystical episodes in saintly life. The crowded canvases and the angles recall Mannerism but his paintings show an emotion that evokes common sentiments in Baroque. Along with other artists, he completed series of paintings (Quadroni of St. Charles) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo for the Duomo of Milan, an altarpiece with the Baptism of St. Augustine for San Marco (Milan), and a Mass of St. Gregory for the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese (1615-17). Also see the nightmarish, St Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk (1617).

He was a scholar of considerable attainments, and held a position of dignity in Cerano. In 1620 he was appointed head of the Accademia Ambrosiana founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Among his pupils were Daniele Crespi, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, and Melchiore Gillardini (died 1675).

Still wondering about an Italian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Giovanni Crespi.