Cesare Alpini

{{short description|Italian art historian (born 1956)}}

Cesare Alpini (born 9 May 1956) is an Italian art historian. Born in Crema, Lombardy, he specialises in art from that city and Lombardy more widely. He is most notable for his contributions to scholarship on Giovanni Battista Lucini (on whom he is considered the main expert){{DBI|nome=Giovan Battista Lucini|name=giovan-battista-lucini|author=Micaela Mander|volume=66|year=2007|access-date=}} and Gian Giacomo Barbelli.{{cite web|url=https://formesettanta.wordpress.com/tag/cesare-alpini/|title=Gian Giacomo Barbelli e il barocco cremasco|language=it|access-date=25 July 2014}} He has collaborated on several art exhibitions held in Crema, including Pittura sacra a Crema dal '400 al '700 (1992),{{Cite news|title= Pittura sacra del '400 in "vetrina" a Crema|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1992/giugno/17/pittura_sacra_del_400_vetrina_co_0_92061717444.shtml|publisher= Corriere della Sera|date= 17 June 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120091233/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1992/giugno/17/pittura_sacra_del_400_vetrina_co_0_92061717444.shtml|access-date = 29 March 2015|archive-date=2015-11-20|language=it}} L'estro e la realtà (1997),{{cite web|url=http://www.comune.crema.cr.it/sviluppo/public/upload/File/FDMuseo/Insula_Fulcheria_XXXVII_2008/Insula_vol_B/345_352_gli_autori.pdf|title='Alpini Cesare' in Insula Fulcheria, XXXVII B, Crema, 2008, pp. 345|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514212513/http://www.comune.crema.cr.it/sviluppo/public/upload/File/FDMuseo/Insula_Fulcheria_XXXVII_2008/Insula_vol_B/345_352_gli_autori.pdf|archive-date=2014-05-14|language=it}} Officina Veneziana (2002) and Luigi Manini (2007).{{Cite web|url = http://www.exibart.com/profilo/autoriv2/persona_view.asp?id=148484|title= Cesare Alpini |access-date= 8 January 2014|language=it}}