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 recorded in documents from 1420 to 1442-49. In 1423 he worked in Urbino, where he left the only works of certain attribution; however, he remained tied to the Ferrarese school, from which he derived his training and which, in turn, he would influence. The Gallery of Urbino preserves, in addition to a gonfalon of his hand, 13 panels once part of a polyptych with stories of St. Bernardino from 1439 and another from 1436, while fragments of frescoes remain in the bell tower of S. Francesco. The decoration of the chapel of Talamello near Pesaro (1437), with stories of the Virgin, is considered his masterpiece.