page_title: Alessandro Berri
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Alessandro Berri / Works
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Dipinto "Madonna in trono con bambino" di Alessandro Berri 1569 attualmente custodito presso il Palazzo Comunale di Castelnuovo Scrivia
context_page_description: Alessandro Berri was an Italian painter who lived in Piedmont around the 1500s.
context_section_description: His most known work of art is a copy of the "Ultima Cena - Last Supper" which can be admired above the altar of the Corpus Domini Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul church in Castelnuovo Scrivia.
  The artwork (260x265cm) is painted on a table made of five pieces of poplar wood commissioned by the "Company of the Holy Sacrament" of Castelnuovo Scrivia, of which Alessandro Berri was a member brother.
  He considerably lowered its cost both for the love for his Company and "for the good feeling he had to leave this important memory of his virtue to his Country in such an important place…".
  
  The paint itself can be seen as a copy of "The Last Supper" of Leonardo, but with the characters placed in a specular manner in spite of the original.
  Other known works are:
  An oil paint "Madonna in trono col Bambino" (1569) which in the past was located at the picture gallery of Tortona and now is preserved in the Civic Museum of Palazzo Centurione (location of the City Hall) of Castelnuovo Scrivia. The paint is signed in the lower part "Alexander Birius neocastrensis pinxit anno 1569";
  the frescoes on the southern part of "dell’Arengo" room of the Castello Podestarile or Pretorio Palace (Castle of Torriani e Bandello) in Castelnuovo Scrivia. In the lower side of an ornament there is the inscription "De Berris faciebat 1557";
  the coat of arms of the Avalos Gonzaga Family, rulers of Castelnuovo Scrivia from 1526 till 1588, in the Castle of Torriani e Bandello;
  two frescoes portraying the Prophets (1570–1571) on both sides of the altar in the Corpus Domini chapel, ordered by the "Company of the Holy Sacrament".
  Credited to Alessandro Berri is also the altar-step of "The Last Supper" where are illustrated some Stories of the Passion.  This artwork, sawed in the centre to insert a tabernacle,  was re-discovered during the 1986 restoration works of "The Last Supper" hidden by the lower wooden frame of the altar.
caption: Alessandro Berri - "Madonna in trono con bambino", 1569, Castelnuovo Scrivia, Alessandria, Italy
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