Alessandro Albini (1568 – 1646) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. He was born in Bologna, and was an early pupil of the school of the Carracci. He was known for designs he made for the funeral ceremony of Agostino Carracci. He painted a Tomb of St. Valerian and St.Tibertius for the church of San Michèle in Bosco in Bologna, and paintings of St. Peter, St. Catherine, St. Agnes, and St. Cecilia for San Pietro Martyr.

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• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 16. http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1. 

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