Anselmo Canera, or Canneri (active 1522–1584), was an Italian painter of the late

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, born and mainly active in

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. He is noted for his frescoes and his collaborations with other Italian

artists such as

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and

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

Biography

Little is known of Canera's biography. He is said to have trained with

Giovanni Francesco Caroto Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480 – 1555 or 1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active mainly in his native city of Verona. He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona (1445–1526/1529), a conservative painter infused with the ...

. He painted in fresco in some of the Palladian construction in and around Verona, including

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and those of Villa Pojana in Pojana Maggiore. During 1550-1560, he collaborated in such fresco work with

. They were considered two of the top painters during their time. This collaboration included their work for Villa Pojana, an estate in Vicentino. Canera is noted in this project for his well-preserved frescoes on walls and cove vaults dedicated to the Roman emperors. Canera also worked with the young

at the Villa Soranzo near

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in 1552, and subsequently is recorded painting at Castelfranco,

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, and

. Their work at Castelfranco for the Soranzo family involved a cycle of frescoes on the villa's walls. This work only survived in fragments. In 1584, his canvas of the ''Insult to the Pharaoh'' formed part of a trio of canvases, the others by

Felice Brusasorzi Felice Riccio (1542–1605) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, born and mainly active in Verona. He is also known as ''il Brusasorci'' or ''Brusasorzi'' or ''Felice Brusasorci''. He was the son of the painter Domenico Riccio. H ...

and

Paolo Farinati Paolo Farinati (also known as ''Farinato'' or ''Farinato degli Uberti''; c. 1524 – c. 1606) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in mainly in his native Verona, but also in Mantua and Venice. He may have ancestors among Flore ...

depicting scenes from the life of Moses in the Palazzo Ridolfi.Website of the Museo degli Affreschi
entry on the cycle of frescoes of the Palazzo Ridolfi.

References

Sources

* * Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): ''The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume II, Venice 1540-1600'', 2008, National Gallery Publications Ltd, {{DEFAULTSORT:Canera, Anselmo 1522 births 1580s deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Verona Italian Renaissance painters Mannerist painters