ALBERTI, ANTONIO

ALBERTI, ANTONIO. — Also known as Antonio da Ferrara, son of Guido Alberti, painter born in Ferrara in the last decade of the 14th century and mentioned in documents from 1420 to 1442–49. In 1423 he worked in Urbino, where he left the only works securely attributed to him; he nevertheless remained connected with the Ferrarese school, to which he owed his training and which he, in turn, influenced. The Galleria di Urbino preserves, in addition to a gonfalon by his hand, 13 panels formerly belonging to an altarpiece with scenes from the life of St. Bernardino, dated 1439, and another dated 1436, while remnants of frescoes remain in the bell tower of S. Francesco. The decoration of the chapel at Talamello near Pesaro (1437), with scenes from the life of the Virgin, is considered his masterpiece.