Punk-Lovers

The Corpse of Christ by

Allegorical representation of two horses and a monkey, 1490, Hans Memling

Medium: oil,panel

Lelio Orsi, Saint Miguel subduing Satan and weighing the Souls of the Dead

Lelio Orsi (1508/1511 - 1587) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school. He was born and died inNovellara, 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. 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.