Albèri's portrait of Pope Pius VII, c. 1849

Clemente Albèri (1803 in Rimini – 1864 in Bologna) was an Italian painter, best known for portraits and copies of Renaissance and Baroque works.

He first trained under his father, Francesco, who was a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, active in a neoclassical style. Clemente was a professor of painting first in Pesaro, then in Bologna. He painted the cupola of the chapel of San Domenico.[1]

He made celebrated copies, including of the Communion of St Jerome by Agostino Carracci, commissioned in 1825 for the church of San Girolamo della Certosa by Prince Clemente Spada Varalli; a Pietà by Guido Reni, completed around 1841, for the church of Santa Maria della Pietà; and the Santa Cecilia by Raphael (1861) for the church of San Giovanni in Monte. He also painted portraits, among them of Pope Pius VII (late 1820s); Pope Pius VIII (c. 1830); Countess Giulia Tomasi Amiani; and Countess Ersilia Turrini-Rossi Marsigli.[2]

References

  1. ↑ La storia delle arti del disegno, studiata nei monumenti che si conservano in Bologna e nei suburbi, by A.C. Romagnoli, D. Giannitrapani, published by Tipografia Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1888, page 112-113.
  2. ↑ Museo Civici Bologna Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine biographies.


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