( fl 1507–29). Italian painter. Born into a family of painters documented in Syracuse from 1481, he was a prominent follower of Antoniazzo Romano, whose style he interpreted in a sensitive, personal manner. His only surviving documented work, executed with Giovanni Maria da Treviso ( fl 1506–13), is a signed and dated altarpiece of the Virgin of Loreto (1507; Syracuse, Pal. Bellomo); Alessandro was responsible for the group of the Virgin and Child, whose archaic forms reveal the additional influence of Antonello da Palermo ( fl 1497–1528). The panel is similar in style to the heavily overpainted Virgin and Child in the sacristy of the Chiesa Madre, Piazza Armerina. He painted the frescoes (destr. 1693) that decorated Mdina Cathedral, Malta. The Last Judgement (Palermo, S Nicolò da Tolentino) is a less certain attribution, perhaps also in collaboration with Giovanni Maria da Treviso. The main figures of the Virgin of Loreto in the Capuchin church, Savoca, sometimes attributed to Antonio de Saliba, are perceptibly similar to the dated altarpiece, indicating that this also was probably executed by Alessandro. The Virgin Enthroned with SS John the Evangelist and John the Baptist (Messina, Mus. Reg.) seems to be by the same hand, although some attribute it to Antonio de Saliba. Despite problems of attribution, Alessandro emerges as a provincial artist but not a crude one, as a certain elegance in the clean line and apparent naivety of his figures testify.