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Battista Franco

Fortitude and Justice, an allegorical composition in round format, with Fortitude grasping a stone column and Justice pointing upward, a set of scale rests on a rock at right

ca. 1530–61
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19.5 × 19 cm (7.7 × 7.5 in)

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