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The brother of Cherubino Alberti, and third son of Alberto, he was born at Borgo S. Sepolcro, in 1558.
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Giovanni Alberti
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He was also a poet and writer about art critic. He went to Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII, who employed him in the papal palace on Monte Cavallo, and in the Vatican. He excelled in painting landscapes and perspective, in which the figures were usually painted by Cherubino.
Foreign this work, which was commenced in 1595 and completed in 1598, the two painters (Alessandro had died during the course of execution) received 3050 scudi.
In the 1590s Giovanni and Cherubino painted frescoes in the Capella Maggiore of San Silvestro al Quirinale, where the complex perspectival effects include a trompe-l"œil oculus above the altar. Alberti also worked in his native town, in Mantua, Perugia, Florence, and elsewhere.
He died at Rome in 1601. His portrait is placed in the academy of Street Luke, and another in the Uffizi at Florence.
