Alessandro Albani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alessandro Albani

Collector of antiquities, Roman Catholic cardinal

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1692

Place of Birth: Urbino, Marche, Italy

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1779

Profession: librarian, Catholic priest, archaeologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Alessandro Albani (15 October 1692 – 11 December 1779) should be best remembered as a leading collector of antiquities, dealer and art patron in Rome.
He supported the art historian, Johann Joachim Winckelmann and commissioned paintings from Anton Raphael Mengs.
As a cardinal (from 1721) he furthered the interests of the governments of Austria, Savoy and Britain against those of France and Spain; he was a noted jurist and papal administrator in his earlier career.