De marteling van de Heilige Laurentius Cristofano Allori 1616 - 1621

De marteling van de Heilige Laurentius
Cristofano Allori 1616 - 1621
From the collection of
Rijksmuseum
Details
Title: De marteling van de Heilige Laurentius
Creator: Cristofano Allori
Date Created: after 1616 - after 1621
Physical Dimensions: h 216mm Ń w 197mm
External Link: See more details about this work on the Rijksmuseum Website http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.28642
Medium: paper

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Cristofano Allori
Oct 17, 1577 - Apr 1, 1621

Cristofano Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli.
His pictures are distinguished by their close adherence to nature and the delicacy and technical perfection of their execution. His technical skill is shown by the fact that several copies he made of Correggio's works were thought to be duplicates by Correggio himself. His extreme fastidiousness limited the number of his works. Several examples are to be seen at Florence and elsewhere.
His most famous work, in his own day and now, is Judith with the Head of Holofernes. It exists in at least two versions by Allori, of which the prime version is perhaps that in the British Royal Collection, dated 1613, with various pentimenti.
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