Cristoforo Caselli

Cristoforo Caselli, also known as da Parma or il Temperello, (circa 1460 – 1521) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

He earned his livelihood between 1489 and 1492 as a journeyman at Venice, where he painted, in 1495, an altar-piece now hanging in the Sacristy of Santa Maria della Salute.

[1] He is also documented as working from 1489 to 1495 alongside Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini and others, in the decoration of the Great Council Hall in the Doge's Palace in Venice.

[2] In 1496 he became a master at Parma, where he may have later worked with Parmigianino (born 1503), and painted in 1499 a Virgin and Child between Saints Hilarios and John the Baptist which is in the Sala del Consorzio in that city.

The same year he executed The Eternal on a gold ground in a chapel of the Parma Cathedral, and an Adoration of the Magi in San Giovanni Evangelista.