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ALLEGEI— ALTOBELLO. della Scodella, 1530 ; Deposition from the Gross ; Martyrdom of San Placido and Santa Flavia ; and the Procession to Calvary. Dresden Gallery, the St. George; the St. Sehastian; the Notte, or Night) and the Reading Magdalen. Naples, Holy Family, La Zingarella (the Virgin, said to be the portrait of his young wife, Girolama MerHni). Munich, Madonna Enthroned. Paris, Louvre, Marriage of St Catherine ; Ju- piter and Antiope. Berlin, Leda; lo. Vienna, lo. Bome, Borghese Gallery, Danae. London, National Gallery, Education of Cupid; Ecce Homo; Holy Family, La Vierge au Panier: Apsley House, Christ's Agony in the Garden. (Vasari, Tiraboschi, Pungikoni.) ALLEGRI, PoMPONio Quieino, called LiETO, the son of Correggio, h. Sept 3, 1521, living in 1693. Fresco, in the Cathedral of Parma, Moses re- ceiving the Tables of the Law. {4ff^i Pungileonu) ALLEGRINI, Francesco, b. at Gub- bio in 1587, d. at Rome, 1663. Roman School. He was the pupil of the Cav. D'Aipino, whom he resembled in style, as in the frescoes of the cathedral and church of the Madonna de' Bianchi at Gubbio. His later works are superior to his early productions ; some of his best works in fresco are at Savona ; he painted likewise battle-pieces, and in the Oolonna Palace at Rome are two land- scapes by Claude, to which Allegrini added the figures. His son, Flaminio, executed some works in the Vatican. (^Soprani and Itatti.) ALLORI, Alessandbo, called after his uncle and master, Bbonzino, b, at Florence in 1535, d. 1607. Tuscan SchooL He ranks among the Floren- tine anatomical mannerists and imi- tators of Michelangelo. He published a Treatise on Anatomy for artists in 1590. He was an excellent portrait- painter, and as Lanzi has observed, Jaad the bad taste to introduce portraits in the modem costume into ancient historical subjects. Works, Florence, Montaguti Chapel, in the church of the Annunziata, paint- ed in oil, in 1582; in the Gallery of the Uffizj, the Sacrifice of Abraham; and his own Portrait The Berlin Gallery contains a Portridt of Bianca Capello, wife of the Grand Duke Fran- cesco IE.; and a Florentine Family Portrait (Baidinucci.) ALLORI, Cbistoforo, b. at Florence 1577, d, 1621, sometimes called also after his great uncle, Bronzino ; he was the son of Alessandro, and was one of the best painters of his time, more especially in execution. He followed the great reformers of the Florentine School, Cigoli and Gregorio Pagani. Like his father he was an excellent portrait-painter. His most finished pictures are the Judith with the head of Holophemes, portraits of himself and the beautiful Mazzafirra, his mis- tress, the servant being the portrait of her Mother; and the Miracle of San Giuliano ; in the Pitti Palace ; and the Beato Manetto, in the church de' Servi, at Florence. In the Louvre is a small characteristic picture, representing Isa- bella, of Milan, pleading with Charles Vni. for peace. Cristoforo was a good landscape-painter, and he is said to have made some copies, with slight alterations in the backgrounds, of Cor- reggio's Magdalen, which have passed as duplicates by Correggio. {Baidi- nucci.) ALOISI. [Galanino.] ALTISSIMO, Cbistofano dell', living in 1568. A scholar of Angelo Bronzino, and a good portrait-painter. His name appears to have been Papi. Tuscan School. (Vamri.) ALTOBELLO, Francesco Antonio, Neapolitan painter of the seventeenth century; he was a native of Bitonto, and a pupil of Massimo Stanzioni. His pictures are excessively blue, otherwise