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Cristofano
Allori

Italia • 1577−1621

Called Bronzino the Younger, son of Alessandro As the first student of this artist, and then Santi di Tito, Cigoli and Gregorio Pagani. Inspired by an eclectic direction, according to the Florentine school, the last two of these masters, he sought in his writings to the Shine colors, bold game of chiaroscuro, to the great relief shown that it is he managed only a few pictures what, for example, his famous Judith (in the gallery of the Pitti Palace in Florence; the repetition in the Vienna Museum, a beautiful ancient copy in the Imperial Hermitage; the title character is written with friend of the artist, and the head of Holofernes, as suggested, with himself), "St. Julian Strannopriimets" (in the Pitti gallery).

Italian painter, called Bronzino the Younger, son of Alessandro As the first student of this artist, and then Santi di Tito, Cigoli and Gregorio Pagani. Inspired by an eclectic direction, according to the Florentine school, the last two of these masters, Cristofano As sought in their works to the Shine colors, bold game of chiaroscuro, to the great relief shown.

It is quite possible the artist only in a few scenes. So, for example, consider his famous painting "Judith with the head of Holofernes" (1613, Royal collection, Windsor; the repetition in the Vienna Museum, a beautiful ancient copy in the Hermitage; the title character is written with friend of the artist, and the head of Holofernes, as suggested, with himself), "Saint Julian Strannopriimets" (Pitti Palace, Florence), "John the Baptist in the wilderness" (ibid.), "penitent Mary Magdalene" (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), "the Infant Christ, sleeping on the cross" (ibid.) and "Isabella of Aragon at the feet of Charles VIII" (Louvre Museum, Paris).

In the Oxford Museum, the gallery of Ashmolean are several splendid portraits, Cristofano As.

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