Height 45 inches and Width 33 inches
Wearing A Ruff Wall Art , possibly portrait of a young Nobleman Oil on Wood
Panel , unsigned . signs of restoration , normal wood panel cracks due to
centuries and elements as seen in the pictures but overall great piece of Art. Alessandro
di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 1535 – 22
September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and trained in
art by a close friend, often referred to as his ‘uncle’, the mannerist painter
Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.
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In the prime of his career, Allori headed one of the
“two most important workshops in Florence in the second half of the 16th
century” (the other being headed by Santi di Tito). He served as First
Consul of the Accademia del Disegno in 1573, and was made head of the Arazzeria
Medicea, Florence’s state-owned tapestry workshop, in 1581. Allori also worked,
under the guidance of Giorgio Vasari, among the team of artists who decorated
the Studiolo of Francesco I. He contributed two painted panels, depicting a
Banquet of Cleopatra and a landscape with figures diving for pearls.
The cold and polished appearance of his painted figures
makes them resemble statues as much as living beings. The art historian Simona
Lecchini Giovannoni is more positive, remarking that Allori lends life and
immediacy to his paintings through his minute and realistic depictions of
vegetal motifs (especially flowers), household articles, and textiles of all
kinds; the “grandiose, introverted figures” are thus enabled to
“approach the spectator, not with dialogue and sentiment, but through the
tangible evidence of objects and details”
Among his collaborators was Giovanni Maria Butteri and his
main pupil was Giovanni Bizzelli. Cristofano dell’Altissimo Cesare Dandini Aurelio Lomi John Mosnier,
Alessandro Pieroni, Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Monanni also were his pupils.
He was the father of the painter Cristofano Allori (1577–1621).
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.
Height 45 inches and Width 33 inches
