Allegory of Virtue and Vice (Veronese)
Paolo Veronese · 1565
The story
Allegory of Virtue and Vice, also known as The Choice Between Virtue and Vice or The Choice of Hercules, is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created c. 1565 in Venice, Italy. It is now located in the Frick Collection, in New York. It is a large-scale allegorical painting depicting Hercules' struggle between virtue and vice, personified here by the figures of the two women physically pulling him in different directions.
- Artist
- Paolo Veronese
- Date
- 1565
- Collection
- The Frick Collection, New York, United States
- Movement
- Mannerism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 219 × 170 cm
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