A note for Giorgio Alberini: the Saint Cecilia painting rediscovered in the Pinacoteca Albertina in Turin

The article analyzes a good quality painting found in the deposits of the Pinacoteca Albertina in Turin, until now ascribed to Giovan Francesco Romanelli or to an anonymous Lombard painter. It is actually a work by Piedmontese painter Giorgio Alberini, and his nephew Pietro Paolo Buffa, who signed and dated 1620 at the edge of the score, at the bottom. Alberini was a painter born in Alessandria between 1574 and 1576 and in all probability a pupil of Giuseppe Giovenone, as stated in a document dated July 12, 1592. He later married Barbara, daughter of Amedeo Giovenone, thus becoming a relative of the Laninos. Alberini was above all a close collaborator of Moncalvo (he worked, for example, on the decoration of the Great Gallery of Charles Emmanuel I in Turin, 1607, and on the frescoes of the cloister of S. Croce in Casale), yet sometimes he worked alone, even in the same places as Caccia, such as the Sacro Monte di Crea where he painted numerous frescoes.