Anselmo Canera, or Canneri (active 1522–1584), was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, born and mainly active in Verona.[1] He is noted for his frescoes and his collaborations with other Italian artists such as Bernardino India and Paolo Veronese.
Anselmo Canera | |
|---|---|
| Born | Verona |
| Known for | Palladian frescoes |
| Notable work | Insult to the Pharaoh |
Biography
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Little is known of Canera's biography. He is said to have trained with Giovanni Francesco Caroto.[2] He painted frescos in some of the Palladian buildings in and around Verona, including Palazzo Thiene[3] and those of Villa Pojana in Pojana Maggiore.[4] During 1550-1560, he collaborated in such fresco work with Bernardino India. They were considered two of the top painters during their time.[5] This collaboration included their work for Villa Pojana, an estate in Vicentino.[6] Canera is noted in this project for his well-preserved frescoes on walls and cove vaults dedicated to the Roman emperors.[7]
Canera also worked with the young Paolo Veronese at the Villa Soranzo near Treviso in 1552,[8] and subsequently is recorded painting at Castelfranco, Vicenza, and Verona. Their work at Castelfranco for the Soranzo family involved a cycle of frescoes on the villa's walls.[9] This work only survived in fragments.[9] In 1584, his canvas of the Insult to the Pharaoh formed part of a trio of canvases, the others by Felice Brusasorzi and Paolo Farinati depicting scenes from the life of Moses in the Palazzo Ridolfi.[10]
References
edit- ^ Netherlands Institute of Art.
- ^ Bernasconi, Cesare (1864). Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica veronese dai medi tempi fino tutto il secolo xviii. Googlebooks. p. 346.
- ^ Fletcher, Sir Banister (1902). Andrea Palladio: His Life and Works. London: G. Bell and Sons. pp. 28–29.
- ^ Ville Vicentine, entry on the painter.
- ^ Nevola, Fabrizio (2020). Street Life in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-300-17543-1.
- ^ Palladio, Andrea (2002). The Four Books on Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-262-66133-0.
- ^ Williams, Kim; Giaconi, Giovanni; Palladio, Andrea (2003). The Villas of Palladio. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-56898-396-7.
- ^ Penny, 331
- ^ a b Saltzman, Cynthia (2021). Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-71039-2.
- ^ Website of the Museo degli Affreschi, entry on the cycle of frescoes of the Palazzo Ridolfi.
Sources
edit- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 225.
- Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume II, Venice 1540-1600, 2008, National Gallery Publications Ltd, ISBN 1857099133