Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615) 

• Italian painter and copperplate engraver.
• Cherubino (Zaccaria Mattia) Alberti, born in the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro.
• Alberti studied in Rome under Cornelius Cort.
• He first turned to copperplate engraving – initially etching and later with the chisel.
• Alberti often signed with the abbreviation CAB (Cherubinus Albertus Burgensis).
• In the 1580s, Alberti once again shifted his focus to fresco painting.
• The best-known are his vault and wall frescoes of the Sala Clementina in the Vatican, completed in 1598 after working on them for three years with his brother Giovanni.
• During the execution of these frescoes, Alberti was sentenced to death in absentia in 1598 on a murder charge.
• He received a writ of protection from the Pope for a period of six months, later granted complete immunity.
• From 1611 to 1614, Alberti was the head of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
• Cherubino Alberti died, apparently as a result of a severe illness, on October 18, 1615 in Rome.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Carlo Lasinio, Portrait of Cherubini Alberti, circa 1789.
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