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Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (
May 3,
1535 -
September 22,
1607) was an
Italian portrait
painter of the late
Mannerist Florentine school.
Born in Florence. After the death of his father in 1540 he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend and mannerist painter
Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures. In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage:
Andrea del Sarto worked with
Fra Bartolomeo (as well as
Leonardo Da Vinci),
Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained
Bronzino, who trained Allori. Subsequent generations in the city would be strongly influenced by the tide of
Baroque styles pre-eminent in other parts of Italy.
Freedburg derides Allori as derivative, claiming he illustrates "the ideal of Maniera by which art (and style) are generated out of pre-existing art." The polish of figures has an unnatural marble-like form as if he aimed for cold statuary. It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like
Donatello and
Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting. While by 1600 the
Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues. Furthermore, in general, with the exception of the
Contra Maniera artists, it dared not stray from high themes or stray into high emotion.
Among his collaborators was
Giovanni Maria Butteri and his main pupil was
Giovanni Bizzelli. Cristoforo del Altissimo,
Cesare Dandini,
Aurelio Lomi,
John Mosnier,
Giovanni Battista Vanni, and
Monanni also were his pupils . Allori was one of the artists, working under
Vasari, included in the decoration of the
Studiolo of Francesco I.
He is the father of
Cristofano Allori (
1577-
1621).
Main works
- Christ and the Samaritan Woman, (Altarpiece, 1575, Santa Maria Novella, now Prato)
- Road to Calvary, (1604, Rome)
- Dead Christ and Angels, (Museum Fine Arts, Budapest)(External Link
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- Portrait of Piero de Médici, (São Paulo Art Museum, São Paulo)
- Pearl Fishing, (1570-72, Studiolo of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)image
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- Allegory of Human Life, (External Link)
- The Miracle of St. Peter Walking on Water,image
- Venus and Cupid, image (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
In 2006 the BBC foreign correspondent
Sir Charles Wheeler returned an original Alessandro Allori painting to the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. He had been given it in Germany in 1952, but only recently realized its origin and that it must have been looted in the wake of
World War II. The work is a portrait of
Eleonora di Toledo, wife of
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and measures 12 cm x 16 cm.
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