Michelangelo Anselmi

Not to be confused with Michelangelo.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria.

Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492 – c. 1554) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active mostly in Parma.

Biography

He was born, apparently in Tuscany, perhaps in Lucca, from a Parmesan family. He moved to Siena around 1500, where he is mentioned as painter for the first time in 1511. He was a pupil of Il Sodoma and Domenico Beccafumi.

He arrived in Parma around 1515. There, he pained frescoes including several decorations in San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma and an altarpiece for the Duomo. In about 1530, he painted Madonna with Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch.^[1] He painted a Baptism of Christ for the Church of San Prospero in Reggio Emilia. He painted a narrative fresco series on the Life of the Virgin (along with his contemporary Rondani) for the Oratorio della Concezione in Parma. Also painted Holy Family with Saint Barbara (c. 1540).^[2] In 1541, he decorated the apse of the church of the Santa Maria della Steccata according to a design, not of Parmigianino who had once been employed in this task, but of Giulio Romano. He also painted a Adoration of the Magi, which after Anselmi's death was completed by Bernardino Gatti.

Selected works

• Apollo and Marysas (c. 1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)[1]
• Saints Jerome and Christine (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
• Virgin and Saints John and Etienne (Louvre, Paris) [2]
• Christ and the Woman of Samaria (Lakewiew Museum, USA) [3]
• Frescoes in the apse and choir of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma
• Frescoes in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma

References

1. ^ Now in the National Gallery at Parma.
2. ^ Now in National Gallery of Parma.

Sources

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art. ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. pp. 412–416. ISBN 0-14-056035-1
• Myers, Bernard Samuel (ed.) (1969) "Anselmi, Michelangelo (1492-1554)" McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art McGraw-Hill, New York;
• Langmuir, Erika and Lynton, Norbert (eds.) (2000) "Anselmi, Michelangelo (1492-1554)" The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists" Yale University Press, New Haven, CT;

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