# Allegorie op de moed

- By: Jacopo Zucchi (Florence, ca. –1589)
- Date: c. 1567
- Medium: paper, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 224 mm x width 183 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of Mr and Mrs Van Hulsen-Ognibeni/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-2008-109--e6d2d0292171032e478fa32ef4d44902)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/sTbnT/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.