Alessandro Ardente

Alessandro Ardente (died 1595) was an Italian painter during the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Faenza and active in Turin, Lombardy, and Lucca where he was well known as a portrait style. He painted a Conversion of St. Paul for the church of Monte della Pieta in Turin. He painted a Baptism of Christ for the church of San Giovanni and a St. Anthony Abbot (1565) for the church of San Paolino in Lucca .

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 10.