Cristoforo Caselli, also known as ''Da Palma'' or ''il Temporello'' or ''Cristofaro Castelli'', (circa 1460 - 1521) was an Italian painter of the

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period.

Biography

Caselli was born in Parma. He earned his livelihood between 1489 and 1492 as a journeyman at

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, where he painted, in 1495, an altar-piece now hanging in the Sacristy of

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. The Gallery of

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contains a ''Virgin and Child, with SS. John the Baptist and Jerome'' probably painted by him before 1489. He was a contemporary of the painter, later engraver from Parma, Francesco Marmitta. He is also documented as working from 1489 to 1495 alongside

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...

and

Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may ha ...

and others, in the decoration of the Great Council Hall in the Doge’s Palace in Venice. These works were lost in the fire of 1577.Metropolitan Museum
drawing of a head. In 1496 he became a master at

, where he may have later worked with

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bo ...

(born 1503), and painted in 1499 a ''Virgin and Child between Saints Hilarios and John the Baptist'' which is in the Sala del Consorzio in that city. The same year he executed ''The Eternal'' on a

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in a chapel of the

Parma Cathedral Parma Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Parma; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Parma, Emilia-Romagna (Italy), dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Parma. I ...

, and an ''Adoration of the Magi '' in San Giovanni Evangelista. In 1507 he finished the monochrome of the ''Dead Christ'' in the cathedral.

Gallery

File:Cristoforo caselli, dio padre scrive le tavole della legge, 1505-10.jpg, ''God the Father writes the tablets of the law,''

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Saint Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

and Saint James the Elder'' File:Cristoforo Caselli - Saint Matthew and Saint Sebastian - 26.113 - Detroit Institute of Arts.jpg, ''

Saint Matthew Matthew the Apostle,, shortened to ''Matti'' (whence ar, مَتَّى, Mattā), meaning "Gift of YHWH"; arc, , Mattai; grc-koi, Μαθθαῖος, ''Maththaîos'' or , ''Matthaîos''; cop, ⲙⲁⲧⲑⲉⲟⲥ, Mattheos; la, Matthaeus a ...

and

Saint Sebastian Saint Sebastian (in Latin: ''Sebastianus''; Narbo, Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Empire c. AD 255 – Rome, Italia, Roman Empire c. AD 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Dioclet ...

'' File:Head of a Youth with a Diadem MET DP220573.jpg, ''Head of a Youth with a Diadem''

References

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