Cherubino Alberti also called Borghegiano, was an Italian

Italy

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 engraver and painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Biography

Alberti was born in 1553 in Borgo San Sepolcro

Sansepolcro

Sansepolcro , is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo.Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, Borgo was the birthplace of the painters Piero della Francesca, Raffaellino del Colle and Angiolo Tricca...

, Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

 (from which he took his nickname of Borgheggiano), into family of artists. He was the second son of Alberto Alberti

Alberto di Giovanni Alberti

Alberto di Giovanni Alberti, or Berto di San Sepolcro was a Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter.Alberti was born at Sansepolcro. He was engaged as master carver at Arezzo, where he was responsible for the choir stalls in the Cathedral, and at Rome...

, a carver and sculptor, and his brothers Alessandro Alberti

Alessandro Alberti

Alessandro Alberti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was the eldest son of Alberto Alberti, was born at Borgo San Sepolcro in 1551. He trained with Gaspero di Silvestre of Perugia. In 1566, Alessandro's uncle Lodovico took him to Rome, where he subsequently much in...

 and Giovanni Alberti

Giovanni Alberti

Giovanni Alberti, brother of Cherubino Alberti, and third son of Alberto, was born at Borgo S. Sepolcro, in 1558. He visited Rome in the time of Gregory XIII, and was employed by that pontiff in the papal palace on Monte Cavallo, and in the Vatican. He excelled in painting landscapes and...

 were artists as well.

Alberti studied in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 under Cornelius Cort

Cornelis Cort

Cornelis Cort was a Dutch engraver and draughtsman. He spent the last 12 years of his life in Italy, where he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo.-Biography:...

 and worked as an engraver, modeling his works after the inventions of other artists. His early influences included Raphael

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

 and contemporary Mannerist art. Between 1571 and 1575 he made engravings after works of Federico

Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....

 and Taddeo Zuccari

Taddeo Zuccari

Taddeo Zuccari was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.-Biography:...

. Over the next ten years his engravings included works after Raphael, Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori , his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci,...

, Rosso Fiorentino

Rosso Fiorentino

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo , known as Rosso Fiorentino , or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.-Biography:...

, Marco Pino

Marco Pino

Marco Pino or Marco da Siena was an Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period. Born and first trained in Siena, he later worked in Rome and in Naples, where he died. He was putatively a pupil of the painters Beccafumi and Daniele da Volterra. The biographer Filippo Baldinucci also...

, Pellegrino Tibaldi

Pellegrino Tibaldi

Pellegrino Tibaldi , also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.-Biography:...

, and Cristofano Gherardi

Cristofano Gherardi

Cristofano Gherardi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period, active mainly in Florence and Tuscany....

. He also produced works based on ancient statues.

Later in life Alberti decorated palaces and churches with paintings in fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

. His most famous work was the fresco decoration of Sala Clementina

Clementine Hall

The Clementine Hall is a hall of the Apostolic Palace near St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It was established in the 16th century by Pope Clement VIII in honor of Pope Clement I, the third successor of St. Peter. The Clementine Hall is covered in Renaissance frescoes and valuable works of art...

 in the Vatican

Apostolic Palace

The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, which is located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Sacred Palace, the Papal Palace and the Palace of 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

Cornelis Cort

Cornelis Cort was a Dutch engraver and draughtsman. He spent the last 12 years of his life in Italy, where he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo.-Biography:...

, and afterwards by studying the works of Agostino Carracci

Agostino Carracci

Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci....

 and Francesco Villamena

Francesco Villamena

Francesco Villamena was an Italian engraver and artist.Villamena was born in Assisi. He studied under Cornelis Cort. Villamena produced primarily works of religious and historical subjects. He died in Rome in 1624.-References:...

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At his death in Rome Alberti was Director of the Academy of Saint Luke

Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome, under the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists", which included painters, sculptors and architects, above that of mere craftsmen. Other founders included Girolamo...

, an association of artists.

Works

Over 180 engravings are attributed to Alberti, including:

• Portrait of Pope Gregory XIII. .
• St. Susannah resting against a pedestal, with a sword
• St. Jerome, meditating on the Crucifix
• The Crucifixion (1575), after Michelangelo
• St. Andrew bearing his Cross (1580)
• Two other figures, from the Last Judgment (1591)
• Charon, with two other figures (1575)
• Prometheus devoured by the Vulture (1580)
• Pietá, after the sculpture by Michelangelo
• Three—The Creation; Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise, from Polidoro da Caravaggio.
• The Death of the Children of Niobe, in five sheets
• Rape of the Sabines, after another frieze from Polidoro da Caravaggio
• The Triumph of Camillus; in the style of the antique.
• Pluto holding a torch. Fortune standing on a shell.
• The Presentation at the Temple; The Resurrection, and the The Holy Family (1582) after Raphael.
• Jupiter and Ganymede (1580), after Raphael
• The Graces and Venus leaving Juno and Ceres, after a frieze by Raphael
• The Adoration of the Magi (1574), The Transfiguration, Christ praying on the Mount (1574) and Stoning of Stephen ; after Il Rosso.
• A piece of architecture ; after the same, in two prints. Raphael. 1582. Rome, 1575.
• The Baptism of our Saviour, by St. John (1574) and The Miracle of St. Philip Benizzo after Andrea del Sarto
  Andrea del Sarto
  Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori , his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci,...
  
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• Tobit and the Angel (1575), after Pellegrino Tibaldi
  Pellegrino Tibaldi
  Pellegrino Tibaldi , also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.-Biography:...
  
  
• Christ praying in the Garden, after Perino del Vaga.
• 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
  Taddeo Zuccari
  Taddeo Zuccari was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.-Biography:...
  
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• Assumption and The Coronation of the Virgin (1572), after Federico Zuccari
  Federico Zuccari
  Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....
  
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