Alessandro Fei

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Alessandro Fei (1543 - 1592) was an Italian painter active in Florence, working in a Mannerist style. He was also called called il Barbiere (the Barber). He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with an oval canvas relating a Goldsmith Shop story. He also painted an altarpiece on the Flagellation of Christ for the Basilica church of Santa Croce in Florence.

He was a pupil of Maso da San Friano.

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  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books, p. 616. 
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