La diagnostica come strumento critico: il caso di Nero Alberti da Sansepolcro

An interdisciplinary approach (based on both art history and diagnostics) was applied to the analysis of a range of works executed by the workshop of Romano Alberti, known as Nero, the artist, first identified by Enrica Neri Lusanna (1999) with Maestro di Magione. Alberti, to whom the exhibition Sculture ‘da vestire’. Nero Alberti da Sansepolcro e la produzione di manichini lignei in una bottega del Cinquecento was dedicated (Umbertide, 2005), had opened a workshop-atelier in Sansepolcro (Tuscany), that functioned until 1568, the year of his death. This workshop specialized in the execution of devotional images made with different materials: such as statues of St. Roch, the Madonna, the Baby Jesus and other child saints, and also wooden crucifixes.