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(3) Giovanni Alberti
(b Borgo San Sepolcro, 19 Oct 1558; d Rome, 10 Aug 1601). Painter, brother of (1) Alessandro Alberti. He distinguished himself as an expert in perspective design, for which he was praised by Ignazio Danti (in his commentary on Vignola, 1583), Federico Zuccaro and Giovanni Baglione. He is thus usually credited with the design of the architectural perspectives in the fresco decorations he painted in collaboration with his brothers. He also painted putti and ornamental figures. He assisted Danti in the Sala dei Palafrenieri and Sala Vecchia degli Svizzeri in the Vatican (after Feb 1582) and was influenced by Danti’s belief that perspective decorations should be oriented for the most typical viewing point of the spectactor. In 1586 he went to Sabbioneta (nr Mantua) to assist his brother Alessandro at the Palazzo Ducale and painted the fictive colonnades on the end walls of the Galleria degli Antichi. This trip gave him the opportunity to study the illusionistic frescoes of Andrea Mantegna in Mantua and of Correggio in Parma.
Part of the Alberti family
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