Cristofano Allori belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Cristofano Allori as Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school (1577-1621).
Cristofano Allori was born at Florence in 1577. His recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is mannerism.
His best-known work is Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Cristofano Allori died in 1621, aged 44. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes
- Movement: Mannerism
