Cesare Alpini

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Cesare Alpini (born 9 May 1956) is an Italian art historian. Born in Crema, Lombardy, he specialises in art from that city and Lombardy more widely. He is most notable for his contributions to scholarship on Giovanni Battista Lucini (on whom he is considered the main expert) [1] and Gian Giacomo Barbelli. [2] He has collaborated on several art exhibitions held in Crema, including Pittura sacra a Crema dal '400 al '700 (1992), [3] L'estro e la realtà (1997), [4] Officina Veneziana (2002) and Luigi Manini (2007). [5]

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References

  1. Micaela Mander (2006). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 66: Lorenzetto–Macchetti (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
  2. "Gian Giacomo Barbelli e il barocco cremasco" (in Italian). Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. "Pittura sacra del '400 in "vetrina" a Crema" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 17 June 1992. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. "'Alpini Cesare' in Insula Fulcheria, XXXVII B, Crema, 2008, pp. 345" (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-14.
  5. "Cesare Alpini" (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2014.