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| Alessandro Turchi Agatha of Sicily cured by St Peter in her Prison ca. 1630-35 oil on copper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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| Alessandro Turchi Agatha of Sicily cured by St Peter in her Prison ca. 1640-45 oil on slate Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
"Alessandro Turchi was born at Verona. He is said to have acquired the name L'Orbetto from having been employed when a boy as conductor to a blind beggar. A more probable explanation is given by Passeri, who says that he was so called from a defect in one of his eyes. In his poverty he was noticed by Felice Riccio (Il Brusasorci) who discovered in him so decided a gift for art that he took him under his protection. On leaving the school of Riccio he went to Venice, where he worked for a time under Carlo Cagliari, and afterwards to Rome. In competition with Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona, he painted some pictures in the church of La Concezione, as well as several altar pieces for other churches. Turchi was much employed in cabinet pictures representing religious and historical subjects, which he frequently painted on stone."
– adapted from an entry by Michael Bryan in his Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (London: George Bell & Sons, 1889)
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| Alessandro Turchi Lamentation ca. 1645 oil on touchstone Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Alessandro Turchi Lamentation ca. 1617 oil on copper Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Alessandro Turchi Judgment of Paris before 1649 oil on slate private collection |
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| Alessandro Turchi Christ at the Column before 1649 oil on slate private collection |
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| Alessandro Turchi St Agnes protected by an Angel ca. 1620 oil on marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alessandro Turchi Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Alessandro Turchi St Catherine of Siena touching the Dumb Child's Tongue before 1649 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Alessandro Turchi Vision of St Catherine of Siena before 1649 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alessandro Turchi Allegory of the Immaculate Conception, with the Fall of Man before 1649 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Alessandro Turchi Death of Ananias before 1649 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Alessandro Turchi Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist before 1649 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Alessandro Turchi Fragment of an Assumption Scene ca. 1614-15 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |