Alessandro Allori et al.

[porphyry]

Here is a painting from the Ashmolean (thanks to Petrus Plancius for the reference)by Alessandro Allori:



While pursuing his own peerage, Barry Lyndon is forced to pay bribes in the form of ruinous prices for old master paintings. In the film version (I don't recall whether the detail is in the book), the one mentioned is by Alessandro Allori. I've never actually seen one of his before. This is not the one mentioned there, however, since barry's cooment of, "I particulalry like the artist's use of the colour blue." could hardly be applied here.


And a few more behind the cut by an artist I'd never heard of (probably you shouldn't look at them in front of your supervisor):








From the generation after Ingres.

Comments

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

Etty is tremendous, a real Victorian eccentric, he must have painted more naked ladies than any artist in history. "Finding God's most glorious work to be Woman, that all human beauty had been concentrated in her, I resolved to dedicate myself to painting God's most glorious work, more finely than ever had been done." My favourite is this one in the Tate, "Musidora: the Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' ". Worth it just for the title.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him before--another of those figures marginalized in the quest to find the precursosrs of the modern.

[lordtangent.livejournal.com]

I like that first one too!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I suppose that you do!