movement death_place death_date birth_place nationality field birth_date article_title name
mannerism florence , italy 22 september 1607 florence , italy italian painting 31 may 1535 alessandro allori
 alessandro allori
alessandro allori

alessandro di cristofano di lorenzo del bronzino allori -lrb- florence , 31 may 1535 -- 22 september 1607 -rrb- 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 -lrb- as well as leonardo da vinci -rrb- , 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 -lrb- and style -rrb- are generated out of pre-existing art . ''
the polish of figures has an unnatural marble-like form as if he aimed for cold statuary .
it can be said of late phase mannerist painting in florence , that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like donatello and michelangelo , was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting .
while by 1600 the baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures , florence was painting two-dimensional statues .
furthermore , in general , with the exception of the counter - `` maniera '' -lrb- counter-mannerism -rrb- artists , it dared not stray from high themes or stray into high emotion .
among his collaborators was giovanni maria butteri and his main pupil was giovanni bizzelli .
cristoforo del altissimo , cesare dandini , aurelio lomi , john mosnier , alessandro pieroni , giovanni battista vanni , and monanni also were his pupils .
allori was one of the artists , working under vasari , included in the decoration of the studiola of francesco i .
he was the father of the painter cristofano allori -lrb- 1577 -- 1621 -rrb- .
