Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492 – c. 1554) was an Italian

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painter active mostly in

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Biography

He was born, apparently in

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, perhaps in

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, from a

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family of ancient Langobard origin, known as Anselmi di Cardano. He moved to

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around 1500, where he is mentioned as painter for the first time in 1511. He was a pupil of

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and

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. He arrived in Parma around 1515. There, he painted frescoes including several decorations in San Giovanni Evangelista, and an altarpiece for the

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. In about 1530, he painted ''Madonna with Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch'' (now in the National Gallery at Parma). He painted a ''Baptism of Christ'' for the Church of San Prospero in Reggio Emilia. Together with his contemporary Rondani he painted a narrative fresco series on the ''Life of the Virgin'' for the ''Oratorio della Concezione'' in Parma. Anselmi also painted ''Holy Family with Saint Barbara'' (c. 1540; now in the National Gallery of Parma). In 1541, he decorated the apse of the church of the Steccata in Parma according to a design, not of

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who had once been employed in this task, but of

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. He also painted an ''Adoration of the Magi'', which after Anselmi's death was completed by

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Selected works

*''Apollo and Marysas'' (c. 1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington D

*''Saints Jerome and Christine'' (

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, Milan) *''Virgin and Saints John and Etienne'' (

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, Paris

*''Christ and the Woman of Samaria'' ( Lakewiew Museum, USA

*Frescoes in the apse and choir of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma *Frescoes in the church of

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References

* * 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; {{DEFAULTSORT:Anselmi, Michelangelo 1490s births 1550s deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Parma Italian Mannerist painters Fresco painters