Who painted “Allegory of Patience”?

“Allegory of Patience” was painted by Giorgio Vasari. Where to see it: The Klesch Collection.

What to look for

Renaissance: Gothic before it is flatter, with gold grounds and elongated figures; Baroque after it is darker, more dramatic and full of movement.

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo… Wikipedia

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“The Forge of Vulcan”, 1567
“Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici”, 1533
“Allegory of justice and truth”, 1543
“Six Tuscan Poets”, 1544
“The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn”, 1565
“The Coronation of the Virgin”, 1550s
“Allegory of the Conception”, 1541
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