Michelangelo Anselmi

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

He was born, apparently in Tuscany, from a Parmesan family. He arrived in Parma after the age of 20 years. There, he pained frescoes including a chapel 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 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) . 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.

Partial Anthology

• Apollo and Marysas, (c. 1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
• Virgin and Saints John and Etienne, (Louvre)
• Christ and the Woman of Samaria, (Lakewiew Museum, USA)

References

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. 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;