Fortitude

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Author:     Painted in: Florence 1445-1510    Framework: Tempera on wood, 167x87    Located in: Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo Room

Commissioned by the Guild of "Mercatanzia" in 1470 for their Council Hall; the other six Virtues were painted by Piero Pollaiolo. At the Uffizi since 1861.

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In the Biography of Botticelli, written by Giorgio Vasari for The Lives of the Artists, it begins, “In the time of Lorenzo de’Medici, ‘Il Magnifico’, a truly golden age for men of talent, there...Read more

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