Head of a Youth Alessandro Allori

Head of a Youth
Alessandro Allori
From the collection of
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Details
Title: Head of a Youth
Creator: Alessandro Allori
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Medium: red chalk on laid paper; laid down
Object Credit: Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions: Overall: 17.7 x 14.3 cm (6 15/16 x 5 5/8 in.)support: 25.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Classification: Drawing
Artist School: Florentine
Artist Nationality: Italian
Artist Details: Florentine, 1535 - 1607

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Alessandro Allori
May 3, 1535 - Sep 22, 1607

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
In 1540, after the death of his father, he 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. 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, 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.
Freedberg derides Allori as derivative, claiming he illustrates "the ideal of Maniera by which art are generated out of pre-existing art." The polish of figures has an unnatural marble-like form as if he aimed for cold statuary.
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