ALBERTI. - Family of painters originally from Borgo S. Sepolcro, whose activity was carried on mainly in Rome.

CHERUBINO, b. at Borgo S. Sepolcro on 24 Feb. 1553, d. in Rome on 18 Oct. 1615, was a painter and engraver; he received his first instruction perhaps from his father ALBERTO, an architect, but later absorbed disparate influences, while nevertheless remaining on the margins of the conventionalism of the period. In Rome he decorated the Sala Clementina in the Vatican, the Aldobrandini chapel at the Minerva, the choir of S. Silvestro al Quirinale and the sacristy of S. Giovanni in Laterano. His foreshortened effects and his perspectives are remarkable. His brothers were ALESSANDRO, b. at Borgo S. Sepolcro on 9 March 1551, d. in Rome on 10 July 1596, and GIOVANNI, b. at Borgo S. Sepolcro on 19 Oct. 1558, d. in Rome on 10 Aug. 1601, who worked together in the sacristy of S. Giovanni in Laterano and, with Cherubino, in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican.

ALBERTI, CHERUBINO, GIOVANNI and ALESSANDRO - Martyrdom of Pope Clement I; detail of the decoration of the Sala Clementina in the Vatican.(phot. Musei Vaticani)

DURANTE, their cousin (1538-1613), worked in S. Maria in Vallicella (Nativity), in S. Girolamo della Carità, at the Gesù (Transfiguration), at the SS. Apostoli (Annunciation), at the Palazzo del Quirinale, at the Madonna dei Monti (Annunciation). He was also an engraver.

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BIBL.: O. H. Giglioli, S. Sepolcro, Florence 1921; furthermore: for CHERUBINO: P. K., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 191-92; for ALBERTO: A. Muñoz, s. v. ibid., p. 190; for ALESSANDRO: id., s. v. ibid., pp. 190-91; for GIOVANNI: id., s. v. ibid., p. 194; for DURANTE: id., ibid., pp. 192-93.

Vincenzo Golzio

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