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Alessandro Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Born in Florence, he was brought up and trained in art by his uncle, Angelo 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 (as well as Leonardo Da Vinci), 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 preeminent in other parts of Italy.

He is the father of Cristofano Allori (1577-1621). Allori's main works include:

• Christ and the Samaritan Woman, (Altarpiece, 1575, Santa Maria Novella, now Prato)
• Road to Calvary, (1604, Rome)
• Dead Christ and Angels, (Museum Fine Arts, Budapest)
• Portrait of Piero de Médici, (São Paulo Art Museum, São Paulo)
• Pearl Fishing, (1570-72, Studiolo of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)image
• Sussana and the Elders
• Allegory of Human Life,
• The Miracle of St. Peter Walking on Water
• Venus and Cupid, (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)

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