Antonio Alberti
Antonio Alberti was an Italian painter, active mainly in the 15th century in his native city of Ferrara, as well as Bologna and Urbino.
Biography[]
He painted portraits and sacred subjects. For the sacristy of the church of San Bernardino, outside Urbino, he painted a Madonna and Child enthroned (1439). He painted frescoes in the Bolognini chapel at San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, consisting of incidents from the Passion, Paradise, and Inferno . He painted frescoes of the Virgin and child between saints Benedict and Sebastian (1433) for the inner choir of Sant' Antonio Abate in Ferrara. He had a son of the same name, who was also an artist, living in 1550. Onofrio Gabrieli and Fra Carnovale were his pupils. His grandson was Timoteo della Vite.
Gallery[]
Miracle of Saint Anthony (before 1438)
Crocifissione (Crucifixion)
Madonna and Child among the Saints (1439)
Polyptych of Madonna and Child with Saints
Triptych of Madonna and Child with Saints
References[]
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 8.CS1 maint: location (link)
- Quattrocento painters
- Italian male painters
- 15th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Ferrara
- Fresco painters
- Italian painter stubs