Durante Alberti
Durante Alberti (c. 1556 – 1623) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.
Il Gesù
, Rome.He was born in
Gregory XIII. He was also called Durante del Nero. His father was Romano Alberti. His son Pierfrancesco was also a painter and engraver. His brother, Cosimo, was a sculptor, engraver, and painter who died in Rome in 1580. His daughter Chiara was a painter. He was related to the sculptor Alberto, and the painters Alessandro, Giovanni, and Cherubino Alberti. He is said to have collaborated with Leonardo Cugni, also from San Sepolcro.[1]
He painted for the church of
Venerable English College
in Rome. The painting represents the Blessed Trinity and St Thomas to whom the church was dedicated. Students would gather to sing the hymn of thsnksgiving, the Te Deum, whenever news arrived of yet another of the alumni having been executed for professing the Catholic Faith in Protestant England in the late 16th century. Forty four of these students have been declared by the Catholic Church Saints and Martyrs.
Durante Alberti was buried at Santa Maria del Popolo.
References
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- ^ Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli Artisti, Emporeo biografico metodico, volume 10. Venice (1860); Googlebooks: Co' Tipi di Gondolieri. p. 703.
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- Getty ULAN entry.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 13–14.
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