Paintings of Alessandro Allori
Pure genre scenes like the view of women hanging clothes to dry or combing their hair in the vault of a loggetta in the Palazzo Pitti are extremely rare in the monumental form of fresco decorations in the sixteenth century. Comparable scenes are, however, regularly found as elements of landscapes or grotesques.
The layout of the composition played on the beam of light directed behind the Virgin Mary and the vivid piece of still-life in the foreground are already features of seventeenth-century painting.
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