Michele Desubleo (1602–1676)

• Also called Michele Fiammingo (Flemish) or Michele di Giovanni de Sobleau.
• Was a Flemish painter active in Central and North Italy during the Baroque era.
• Born in Maubeuge in 1601, his stepbrother Nicolas Régnier.

• He moved to Rome, where he is recorded in 1624 and 1625.

• By the beginning of the 1630s, he was working in Bologna, in the busy workshop of Guido Reni.

• Starting 1654, he worked for a decade in the Veneto region.

• After 1665, there is evidence of his presence in Parma, where he left a large altarpiece with the Madonna and Saints for the cathedral and a canvas on the secular subject of Sacred Love Triumphing over Profane Love.

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