Portrait of Bianca Cappello Alessandro Allori 1578-1587

Portrait of Bianca Cappello
Workshop of Alessandro Allori 1578-87
From the collection of
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
豪奢な金の刺繍が施された黒と白の衣装と、宝石で飾られた頭飾りを着け、右手の薬指に赤い大きな宝石の指輪をして本を持つ女性は、トスカーナ大公妃のビアンカ・カッペロ（1548—1587）である。彼女はメディチ家の8代目当主であったフランチェスコ大公の熱愛を受け、1578年に結婚して彼の二番目の夫人となり、その翌年に大公妃となった。この肖像画はおそらく、彼女が結婚し、亡くなるまでの10年間のあいだに描かれたものであろう。
作者のアレッサンドロ・アローリは5歳のとき孤児となり、マニエリスムの大画家として知られる伯父のアーニョロ・ブロンズィーノに引き取られ養子となった。フィレンツェで彼は、メディチ家がブロンズィーノに対して行ったのと同じように庇護を受け、教会その他の公共建築物の装飾を委嘱された。またアローリは、本作に見るようにトスカーナ地方の著名人を描いた肖像画で大きな成功を収めた。
アローリは、師匠ブロンズィーノの理想化された形体上の純粋性を引き継ぎながら、ミケランジェロを源泉とする形体の増幅、ラファエロに影響を受けたリズム感などの個人的な趣向を両立させようと試みた。本作は工房の制作ではあるが、このアローリの様式を良く表わしており、とりわけ真珠をはじめとした宝飾品や金刺繍などの材質感の再現性などにその特徴を見せている。なお、アローリが描いたビアンカ・カッペロの肖像画は複数存在し、フィレンツェのウフィーツィ美術館に代表作がある。
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Title: Portrait of Bianca Cappello
Creator: Workshop of Alessandro Allori
Date: c. 1578-87
Physical Dimensions: w54 x h62.8 cm
Type: western painting
External Link: http://www.fujibi.or.jp/en/our-collection/profile-of-works.html?work_id=1153

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Hachiōji-shi, Japan

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (TFAM) was founded by Daisaku Ikeda in 1983. The TFAM collection is comprised of some 30,000 Japanese, Eastern and Western artworks, ranging from paintings, prints, photography, sculptures, ceramics and lacquer ware to armor, swords and medallions of various periods and cultures. Especially noteworthy is its outstanding collection of Western oil paintings that spans a five-hundred-year period from the Renaissance to the Baroque and postmodernist eras, as well as its exceptional collection of photographic masterpieces. Based on the motto, “A museum creating bridges around the world,” TFAM sponsors exhibitions promoting cultural exchange that bring the finest artistic treasures of the world to Japan. TFAM’s international art exhibitions, for instance, have introduced the Japanese public to masterworks from the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Louvre in Paris and Palace Museum of Beijing, among others. To date, works from 17 countries and one region have been represented in the 41 International Exchange Exhibitions that our museum have held since 1983, when we opened TFAM with “Masterpieces of French Art,” to “The Palace of Heaven on Earth: Works from the Palace Museum in Beijing” in 2012. At the request of governments and cultural organizations worldwide, moreover, TFAM has loaned Japanese and Eastern art, as well as Western paintings, from our own collection to museums around the world. Starting with the “Eternal Treasures of Japan” exhibit in Paris, we have organized 33 exhibitions of our collected works in 28 cities in 17 countries and one region to date. In recognition for our museum’s contributions to the promotion of cultural exchange in both Japan and abroad, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented TFAM with an official commendation in 1990.

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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