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| Michelangelo Anselmi St Jerome and St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1532-40 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Virgin and Child in Glory with St John the Baptist and St Stephen ca. 1530-40 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi St Benedict enthroned with Saints 1521 fresco Abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi St Nicholas of Bari ca. 1520-25 fresco Abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma |
"The career of Michelangelo Anselmi may typify the situation of Parmesan painters in the period from the 1520s to the mid century, though his artistic origins are exceptional for that school. Though of Parmesan family, he was born not in Parma but in Tuscany, in Lucca or Siena, and a late tradition has it that his initial training was in the shop of Sodoma. He did not come to his ancestral city until some time between 1516 and 1520, but once there he settled permanently. We have no certain knowledge of any work that precedes Anselmi's residence in Parma. . . . Anselmi's figures and their physiognomies are more spare and ascetic than Correggio's, their angularity of action more pronounced, and the chiaroscuro more sharply accentuated. Moreover, the drawing with the brush is more constrained and fine and more literal in description, as if remembering an earlier Tuscan training. . . . Anselmi's native emotional temper, earlier pressed towards a somewhat incoordinate febrility by Correggio's example, adapted itself easily to the excitements of Parmigianino's Mannerism."
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| Michelangelo Anselmi after cartoons by Giulio Romano Coronation of the Virgin 1541-47 fresco Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma |
"It was Anselmi who was chosen to execute the decoration of the apse of the church of the Steccata for which Parmigianino had been commissioned, but for which he had done no more than supply a design. It was not Parmigianino's design that was given to Anselmi to execute, however, but one supplied by Giulio Romano from Mantua. First painted in 1541-42 according to Giulio's prescription, the finished product was felt to be unsatisfactory by the patrons, and in 1547 Anselmi was commissioned to 'reform' it."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Virgin and Child in Glory with St Jerome, St James the Greater and Donor before 1554 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Apparition of St Agnes to her Family 1526 oil on panel Cattedrale di Parma |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1530-40 oil on panel Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| attributed to Michelangelo Anselmi Holy Family before 1554 oil on metal, mounted on leather Dayton Art Institute (Ohio) |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Apollo and Marsyas in a Landscape ca. 1540 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Studies of Two Seated Men ca. 1532-35 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Two Heads before 1554 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Putti playing Hoops ca. 1548 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Michelangelo Anselmi Putto before 1554 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |