Michelangelo Anselmi
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Italy
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Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
-Mannerist
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
painter
Painting
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active mostly in Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
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Biography
He was born, apparently in TuscanyTuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
, perhaps in Lucca
Lucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
, from a Parmesan family. He moved to Siena
Siena
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...
around 1500, where he is mentioned as painter for the first time in 1511. He was a pupil of Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena,...
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. He painted a Baptism of Christ for the Church of San Prospero
San Prospero
San Prospero is a comune in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 40 km northwest of Bologna and about 15 km northeast of Modena.-External links:*...
in Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
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. He painted a narrative fresco series on the Life of the Virgin (along with his contemporary Rondani
Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani
Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani was an Italian painter of the Parmesan school of painting. He was a near contemporary of Michelangelo Anselmi, and is known to have worked on designs of Antonio da Correggio for the frescoes in the Cappella del Bono of San Giovanni Evangelista of Parma, Italy...
) for the Oratorio della Concezione in Parma. Also painted Holy Family with Saint Barbara (c. 1540). In 1541, he decorated the apse of the church of the Santa Maria della Steccata according to a design, not of Parmigianino
Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...
who had once been employed in this task, but of Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano was an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism...
. He also painted a Adoration of the Magi, which after Anselmi's death was completed by Bernardino Gatti
Bernardino Gatti
Bernardino Gatti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma and Cremona.Born in or near Pavia or Cremona. He is also commonly called il Sojaro. His early apprenticeship is unclear, though he is influenced by the pre-eminent local painters: Pordenone, alongside whose works...
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Selected works
- Apollo and Marysas (c. 1540, National Gallery of ArtNational Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
, Washington DC)http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=530 - Saints Jerome and Christine (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
- Virgin and Saints John and Etienne (LouvreLouvreThe Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
, Paris) http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=14001 - Christ and the Woman of Samaria (Lakewiew Museum, USA) http://www.giovanetto.com/burghley/anselmi.html
- Frescoes in the apse and choir of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma
- Frescoes in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma
Sources
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;