Lelio Orsi (called Lelio da Novellara) (1508/1511 – 1587)
• Was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect of the Reggio Emilia school in northern Italy.
• He appears to have studied under such as Giovanni Giarola, a pupil of Antonio da Correggio.
• 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.
• Much of his output ended in the collections of the Dukes of Este in Ferrara.
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Lelio Orsi, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1570s
Original, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Visited in 2018.
Lelio Orsi, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1570s
Lelio Orsi, The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1565-75
Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.
Lelio Orsi, Noli me Tangere, c. 1575
Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.
