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Freedburg derides Allori as derivative, claiming he illustrates " the ideal of Maniera by which art ( and style ) are generated out of pre-existing art.

" The polish of figures has an unnatural marble-like form as if he aimed for cold statuary.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

Furthermore, in general, with the exception of the Contra Maniera ( Counter-Mannerism ) artists, it dared not stray from high themes or stray into high emotion.