Allegory of Happiness

Allegory of Happiness is an oil-on-copper painting by the Italian Mannerist painter Bronzino, probably first produced for the Studiolo of Francesco I, signed BROZ. FAC. and now in the Uffizi in Florence.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It is now in a fluted and gilded 17th-century wooden frame.^[5] Most art historians date it to around 1567, and it is first mentioned in the Uffizi inventory in 1635/8.^[6]^[7]

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List of works
Portraits	Portrait of a Young Man as Saint Sebastian (c. 1533) Portrait of Ugolino Martelli (1536–1537) Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (c. 1530s–1540s) Portrait of a Young Man with a Book (c. 1540) Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi (c. 1540) Portrait of Bia de' Medici (c. 1542) Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici (1545) Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante (1552) Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child (c. 1545) Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1545) Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo (c. 1545) Portrait of Stefano Colonna (c. 1546)
Religious	Pietà (1529) Adoration of the Shepherds (1539–1540) Panciatichi Holy Family (1541) Crossing of the Red Sea (1542) Adoration of the Bronze Snake (1540–1545) Deposition of Christ (1545) Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John (c. 1525–1550)
Secular	Flaying of Marsyas (c. 1531) Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (c. 1545) Allegory of Happiness (1567)
Related	Capponi Chapel Cappella di Eleonora Mannerism Cosimo I de' Medici (patron) Pontormo (teacher)

Allegory of Happiness

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