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Allegorie op de moed
Jacopo Zucchi (Florence, ca. –1589)
c. 1567
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 224 mm x width 183 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of Mr and Mrs Van Hulsen-Ognibeni/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This sketch is a study for a painting commissioned by Prince Francesco de’ Medici, from a series celebrating the family’s prosperous rule of Florence. The iconography is based on the Judgement of Paris, with an additional political subtext alluding to the choices a sovereign has to make. The elegant dancing figures, and complex allegorical content, are typical qualities of Florentine Mannerist art.
