Venus Disarming Cupid
Alessandro Allori circa 1570
From the collection of
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Details
Title: Venus Disarming Cupid
Creator: Alessandro Allori
Location: Italy
Physical Dimensions: 55 x 89 in. (139.7 x 226.06 cm); framed: 69 x 103 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (175.26 x 262.26 x 14.61 cm); sight: 54 3/4 x 89 in. (139.07 x 226.06 cm)
Medium: Oil on wood
Object Classification: Paintings
Full Title: Venus Disarming Cupid
Curatorial Area: European Painting
Credit Line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress
Chronology: 16th century
Artwork Accession Number: 35.1
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, United States
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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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