Michelangelo Anselmi
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Michelangelo Anselmi
(b Siena or Lucca, ?1492; d Parma, 1556). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was arguably the most imaginative painter in Parma in the early 16th century after Correggio and Parmigianino. However, he was trained in Siena, though his only surviving work there, a Visitation in the church of Fontegiusta, shows the importance of Sodoma in the formation of his art. Anselmi's family was apparently from Parma, but he is not securely documented there until 1520. In that year he began to paint in S Giovanni Evangelista, where he decorated the ribs of the nave vaults, the apses of both transepts and at least two chapels: the chapel in the north transept, with frescoes of SS Agnes and Catherine, and the sixth chapel on the left of the nave, with frescoes of the Four Doctors of the Church. It has also been suggested that he executed the frescoes of SS Nicholas and Hilary in the fourth chapel on the left, which have been attributed to Parmigianino. In 1525 Anselmi was one of the group of prominent artists consulted about the construction of S Maria della Steccata, Parma, where his most extensive works in fresco were subsequently painted. These comprise the Coronation of the Virgin (1541-2, altered 1547) in the main apse, a commission that was given to him after the death of Parmigianino in 1540 and for which he was required to work from a 'coloured drawing' by Giulio Romano, and, on the facing apse and vault over the west door, an Adoration of the Magi and Four Prophets, which were completed by Bernardino Gatti.
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Michelangelo Anselmi
Not to be confused with Michelangelo.
Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492 – c. 1554) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active mostly in Parma.
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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 an 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
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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