Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also called Borghegiano, was an Italian
engraver and
painter. He is most often remembered for the Roman frescoes completed with his brother
Giovanni Alberti during the papacy of Clement VIII. He was most prolific as an engraver of copper plates.[1]
Later in life Alberti decorated palaces and churches with paintings in
fresco. His most famous work was the fresco decoration of
Sala Clementina in the
Vatican, which he completed with his brother Giovanni. He painted for the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. He may have been first a pupil of
Cornelis Cort, and afterwards by studying the works of
Agostino Carracci and
Francesco Villamena.
At his death in Rome Alberti was Director of the
Academy of Saint Luke, an association of artists.
Works
Over 180 engravings are attributed to Alberti,[2] including:
Portrait of Pope Gregory XIII. .
St. Susannah resting against a pedestal, with a sword
The Adoration of the Shepherds (1575), The Holy Family, The Scourging of Christ, Conversion of St. Paul, and Assumption of the Virgin, after
Taddeo Zuccari.
Assumption and The Coronation of the Virgin (1572), after
Federico Zuccari.
^Witcombe, Christopher (Winter 1991). "Some Letters and Some Prints Dedicated to the Medici by Cherubino Alberti". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 22 (4): 641–660.
doi:
10.2307/2542369.
JSTOR2542369.
^Clara Erskine Clement (1874). Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. New York: Hurd and Houghton. pp. 17–18.