Lelio Orsi

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Italian painter (1508/1511–1587)

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::summary Italian painter (1508/1511–1587) ::

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Lelio Orsi (1508/1511 – 1587), also known as Lelio da Novellara, was a Mannerist painter and architect of the Reggio Emilia school in northern Italy.

He was born and died in Novellara, and much of his work was completed in Reggio. He appears to have studied under such as Giovanni Giarola, a pupil of Antonio da Correggio. There is documentary evidence that he visited Rome in 1554–55, and may have been influenced by Girolamo Bedoli, Correggio and the prototypic mannerists Giulio Romano as well as Michelangelo and his successor Daniele da Volterra. He is said to have trained Raffaellino da Reggio. Other pupils or followers were Giovanni Bianchi, known as il Bertone Reggiano, and Jacopo Borbone of Novellara. He was active in both exterior and interior decoration, and much of his work is in small cabinet pieces, not large altarpieces. Much of his output ended in the collections of the Dukes of Este in Ferrara. NOTOC Orsi’s style draws upon the ethereal simplicity of Correggio, but also incorporates the contorted poses, perspective distortions, and crowded settings characteristic of Mannerism. At times, the cumulative effect is unsettling. While the angels above unsheathing divine swords are meant to carry the day in The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine it appears that the execution was stymied by breakdown within the complex set of depicted gears.

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  • https://www.academia.edu/35805991/Lelio_Orsi_Antonio_P%C3%A9rez_and_The_Minotaur_Before_a_Broken_Labyrinth

References

  1. "Órsi, Lelio, detto Lelio da Novellara".
  2. Griswold, William. (1994). "Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  3. Tiraboschi, Girolamo. (1786). "Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena". Presso la Societa' Tipografica.
  4. G. Tiraboschi, page 126.
  5. "Orsi Lelio, Adorazione dei pastori". Fondazione Federico Zeri.
  6. "The Walk to Emmaus". The National Gallery.
  7. "Attributed to Lelio Orsi (1508/11 - 1587): St Michael subduing Satan and weighing the Souls of the Dead". Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford.

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