Alessandro Allori belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Alessandro Allori as Italian painter (1535–1607).
Alessandro Allori was born at Florence in 1535. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Florence.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, fresco painter and designer.
His recorded movement is mannerism.
Among his best-known works are Portrait of Bianca Cappello, Susanna and the Elders and Triumph of Caesar. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Duchy of Florence shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Alessandro Allori died in 1607, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Portrait of Bianca Cappello
- Notable work: Susanna and the Elders
- Notable work: Triumph of Caesar
- Notable work: Ferdinando de' Medici Loggia
- Movement: Mannerism
