Lelio Orsi Explained
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.[1] [2]
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,[3] and Jacopo Borbone of Novellara.[4] 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.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.
Selected attributions
References
- Book: Freedberg, Sydney J.. 1993. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. 577–679 . Penguin Books .
- Book: Smyth, Francis P.. John P. O'Neill . 1986. The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. National Gallery of Art. Washington DC. 150–158.
- Book: Eitel-Porter, Rhoda . 2017. Lelio Orsi, Antonio Pérez and The Minotaur Before a Broken Labyrinth. 11–19. Print Quarterly Vol.XXXIV No.1 . printquarterly.com .
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Notes and References
- Encyclopedia: Treccani. Órsi, Lelio, detto Lelio da Novellara. it. 28 November 2013.
- Book: Griswold, William . Griswold, William M . Wolk-Simon, Linda. Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections. 1994. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. 978-0-87099-688-7. 12–13, 148.
- Book: Tiraboschi, Girolamo. 1786. Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena. 121 . Presso la Societa' Tipografica . Modena .
- G. Tiraboschi, page 126.
- Web site: Orsi Lelio, Adorazione dei pastori. Fondazione Federico Zeri. 28 November 2013. it.
- Web site: The Walk to Emmaus. The National Gallery. 28 November 2013. London.
- Web site: Attributed to Lelio Orsi (1508/11 - 1587): St Michael subduing Satan and weighing the Souls of the Dead. From: Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford. 28 November 2013.