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

Lunette fresco (detail)

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.

This detail of the lunette fresco shows Fortuna as Victrix with the Insignia of the Tuscan Grand Dukes Triumphs over Envy and Fury.