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Anonymous 17th Century, Portrait of Alessandro Algardi, date unknown, oil on canvas. © Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome

Alessandro Algardi

Alexander Algardinus, Alexander Algardus, Alexander Algardius, Alexander Algardi, Aless.ro Alghardi

Role(s): Artist

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Selected Bibliography

Bacchi, Andrea. "A Proposed Attribution to Alessandro Algardi: ‘Maria Cerri Capranica’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum." The Sculpture Journal 20 (2011): 117–127.

Galassi Paluzzi, Carlo. "Un bozzetti di Alessandro Algardi per l'urna di S. Ignazio al Gesù." Roma: Rivista di studi e di vita romana 3 (1925): 17–18.

Grimaldi, Floriano, and Massimo Masci. Alessandro Algardi: Il Crocifisso Borghese. Milan, 2011.

Heimbürger Ravalli, Minna. Alessandro Algardi: Scultore. Rome, 1973.

Hess, J. "Ein Spätwerk des Bilhauers Alessandro Algardi." Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 8 (1931): 292–303.

Montagu, Jennifer. Alessandro Algardi. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1985.

Neumann, Enno. Mehrfigurige Reliefs von Alessandro Algardi: Genese, Analyse, Ikonographie. Bochumer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 7. Frankfurt am Main, 1985.

Raggio, Olga. "A Rediscovered Portrait: Alessandro Algardi's Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese," Connoisseur 138 (1956): 203–208.

Riccoboni, Alberto. "Un'opera dimenticata di Alessandro Algardi." Capitolium 18 (1943): 313–316.

Sapori, Giovanni. "Risfogliando le ‘Arti di Bologna’: Carracci, Agostini, Massani, Algardi, Guillain." In Nuova luce su Annibale Carracci, edited by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer et al., 227–253. Rome, 2011.

Vitzthum, Walter. Alessandro Algardi. Milan, 1966.

Wittkower, Rudolf. "Un bronzo dell'Algardi a Urbino." Rassegna marchigiana 7 (1928): 41–44.