他出生在Romagnano Sesia的儿子,一个画家,拉斐尔Crespi,搬到Cerano和他的家人一些年后。1591年,他一直生活在米兰.

真正的反对改革虔诚狂热地米兰艺术表达自己的时间,他的画作关注秘密和神秘圣洁的生活。拥挤的画布和角度召回怪癖,但他的绘画表现出情绪唤起常见的情绪巴洛克式的艺术。连同其他的艺术家,他完成了一系列绘画(圣查尔斯Quadroni)的生活圣查尔斯包罗密[1]为米兰大教堂;一个祭坛的装饰品与圣奥古斯丁的洗礼圣马可,米兰圣格雷戈里,大量的圣Vittore的教堂瓦雷泽(1615 - 17)。也看到了噩梦般的,圣格雷戈里提供一个僧侣的灵魂(1617),也在圣Vittore。

他是一个相当造诣的学者,并在Cerano举行的尊严。1620年,他被任命为主管学院Ambrosiana由红衣主教费德里科•包罗密

He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved toCerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to have been living inMilan.

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 art. Along with other artists, he completed a series of paintings (Quadroni of St. Charles) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo[1]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), also in San Vittore.[2]

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.