Angelo Allori

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Angelo (Agnolo) Allori (1502 - 1572) better known as Il Bronzino—for his dark complexion— was a Florentine Mannerist painter. He became the favorite pupil of Jacopo da Pontormo who adopted him, and whose influence lasted through Bronzino's career. He painted the portraits of some of the most famous of his day, and idealized portraits of poets of the past, Dante and Petrarch. His famous series of aloof portraits of Eleanora da Toledo and Cosimo I de' Medici, Bartollomeo Panciatichi and his wife Lucrezia, of Florence, or Andrea Doria as Neptune, outshine his studied allegorical nudes. He took a prominent part in the activities of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, of which he was a founder member in 1563. The painter Alessandro Allori was his pupil and adopted son.

Most of his best works are in Florence, but examples are in the National Gallery, London, and elsewhere.

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