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(1) Alessandro Alberti
(b Borgo San Sepolcro, 9 March 1551; d Rome, 10 July 1596). Painter. He was the oldest son of Alberto Alberti, whose diary documents his activities. Alessandro was the first member of the family to study painting, perhaps with Raffaello dal Colle. He first visited Rome in 1566 and travelled frequently between Rome, Borgo San Sepolcro and Naples. In Città di Castello he decorated the Bufalini Chapel in S Francesco (1576–7; in situ); in Rome he painted an altarpiece of St Susanna for S Susanna (untraced), known through an engraving of 1578 by his brother (2) Cherubino Alberti. After some years in Naples and Borgo San Sepolcro, he was commissioned in 1586 by Vespasiano Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta, to decorate the Galleria degli Antichi (in situ) in the Palazzo Ducale, Sabbioneta (nr Mantua). He painted the long walls with a fictive architectural scheme supporting decorative motifs derived from his Roman experience. His brother (3) Giovanni Alberti later joined him to paint the end walls. In 1588 Alessandro was back in Borgo San Sepolcro working with his brothers on the decoration of the Palazzo Tornabuoni and of the refectory (now the oratory) of the Compagnia del SS Crocifisso. Later in that year he was in Naples decorating the palace of Don Luigi di Toledo. In 1596, already terminally ill, he was summoned to Rome to assist his brothers in the decoration of the Sala Clementina (in situ) in the Vatican. Most of his documented works are untraced, and only a few drawings have been attributed to him in the Alberti family sketchbook (Rome, Gab. N. Stampe).
Part of the Alberti family
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