# The Virtue of Duty

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PIERATTI, Domenico](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

On the garden side of the courtyard of Palazzo Pitti, Ammannti constructed a grotto, called the &#34;grotto of Moses&#34; on account of the porphyry statue that inhabits it. Inside there are four other statues representing secondary virtues. Among them the Zeal and the Duty were made by Pieratti.

## Related artworks

- [Font for consecrated water](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807/font-for-consecrated-water-r05d862d411f9b6>)
- [The Virtue of Zeal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807/the-virtue-of-zeal-rd74c05a0209173>)
- [The Youthful St John the Baptist \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807/the-youthful-st-john-the-baptist-detail-r1cc777d1fa3198>)
- [The Youthful St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807/the-youthful-st-john-the-baptist-r97f2e80b1ce00a>)
- [The Youthful St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pieratti-domenico-ra6ca4477848807/the-youthful-st-john-the-baptist-re8f142d1f182f0>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)