Alessandro Fortori

Alessandro Fortori (16th-century) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period.

Biography

He was born in Arezzo. He was one of the fellow painters from Arezzo, along with Bastiano Flori and Fra Salvatore Foschi, recruited to paint at sundry projects by Giorgio Vasari.[1] Fortori painted For the church of San Francesco (1568) in Citerna and for the church of San Domenico (1569) in Citta di Castello.[2]

References

  1. ↑ The History of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools, by Luigi Lanzi, page 202.
  2. ↑ Indice-guida dei monumenti pagani e cristiani riguardanti l'istoria e l'arte nella provincia dell'Umbria By Mariano Guardabassi, (1872) page 362.
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