Born in Florence in 1953, Alessandro Becattini begins in 1978 to work in the G. Polloni Studio, of stained glass windows. He also work for a long time in the restoration of antique stained glass windows of particular artistic interest field: he’s participated to the restoration of the 14th-century oculus on the façade of Santa Maria Novella, in the same church he restored Domenico Ghirlandaio's apsidal triple lancet window, he worked on the 16th-century stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Arezzo, as well as in the Cathedral of Florence where, as the technician in charge, he restored the 15 15th-century stained glass windows of the tribunes, the 4 14th-century stained glass windows of the naves and the eyes of the dome drum, works by Paolo Uccello, Donatello and Lorenzo Ghiberti.

In 1987 he’s collaborated to the realisation of the text of the film documentary Gugliemo of Marcillat, the painter of the light (Edition Video RAI). In 1988 and 1989 he has collaborated at the magazine “Kermes-atre e tecnica del restauro”. In 1988 he has published, within the volume Maso di Banco: la Cappella di San Silvestro edited by Cristina Acidini and Enrica Neri, a contribution on the restoration of the stained glass window. In 1999, he participated as a speaker at the international conference on Guillame de Marcillat: la vetrata rinascimentale e la 'maniera moderna' nell'aretino held at the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Arezzo.