Cristofano Allori was born and died in Florence. His most famous work is ‘Judith with the Head of Holofernes’ in the Pitti Palace, which is influenced by the dark, dramatic paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. The painting in the Government Art Collection of ‘Tobias and the Angel’, in which the figures are strikingly highlighted against a dark background, may likewise be indebted (albeit probably indirectly) to Caravaggio’s style.
