Main Works
- Portrait of a Young Man, (1561, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- Christ and the Samaritan Woman, (Altarpiece, 1575, Santa Maria Novella, now Prato)
- Road to Calvary, (1604, Rome)
- Dead Christ and Angels, (Museum Fine Arts, Budapest)
- Portrait of Piero de Médici, (São Paulo Art Museum, São Paulo)
- Pearl Fishing, (1570–72, Studiolo of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)image
- Sussana and the Elders
- Allegory of Human Life
- The Miracle of St. Peter Walking on Water
- Venus and Cupid, (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
In 2006 the BBC foreign correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler returned an original Alessandro Allori painting to the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. He had been given it in Germany in 1952, but only recently realized its origin and that it must have been looted in the wake of World War II. The work is possibly a portrait of Eleonora (Dianora) di Toledo de' Medici, niece of Eleonora di Toledo, and measures 12 cm x 16 cm.
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