The Shadow and the Light: The Legacy of Lelio Orsi In the twilight of the Italian Renaissance, as the harmonious balance of High Renaissance classicism began to fracture into the restless energy of Mannerism, there emerged a voice from the fertile plains of Emilia-Romagna that captured the profound anxieties of a changing world. Lelio Orsi, often remembered by his more evocative moniker Lelio da Novellara, was not merely a painter or…