Nuovi contributi su Alessandro Fei del Barbiere

The article focuses on the early career of the Florentine painter Alessandro Fei, known as ‘del Barbiere’ (1537-1592), with new attributions (drawings, panels for a studiolo, and por- traits) and some secure dates for the hitherto relatively uncertain chronology of his altarpieces and frescoes in the late 1570s and early 1580s. The stylistic evidence points inevitably to the im- pact of Vasari and other artists who were active in the Studiolo, such as Giovan Battista Naldini, but it also reveals an individual penchant for reviving the simplicity of language of the early six- teenth-century Florentine painters such as Fra Bartolomeo and Andrea del Sarto, together with a hint of the complex luminosity of Beccafumi, no doubt absorbed during Fei’s probable sojourn in Sienese territory in 1575-1576.