ALLORI, Alessandro
(b. 1535, Firenze, d. 1607, Firenze)

View of the Salone

1578-82
Fresco
Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano

Allori painted the lunette on the wall opposite to Pontormo's lunette in the Salone. It is a formal pendant to Pontormo's work, he took over the horizontal articulation, the number of figures, even the colours of their garments. The theme of the lunette is Hercules and Fortuna beneath the Tree of the Hesperides.

The picture shows the wall containing Allori's lunette fresco.