# Equity and Rigour [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DANTI, Vincenzo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Marble, height 280 cm ## Commentary In 1564 Danti began the Medici coat of arms with allegories of Equity and Rigour and a commanding portrait of Cosimo I for the entrance of Vasari's Uffizi. The svelte reclining allegories are still in place, but the large seated allegorical portrait of Cosimo I that was to have topped the group ended up as a fountain in the Boboli Gardens. Danti's second attempt, the standing, strongly idealized portrait of Cosimo I as Augustus, must have been carved in the early 1570s and was replaced about 10 years later by the present much more straightforward portrait by Giambologna. The photo shows the reclining allegories with the standing portrait of Cosimo I by Giambologna. ## Related artworks - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Cosimo I as Augustus]() - [Cosimo I as Augustus]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross]() - [Equity and Rigour]() - [Honour Triumphant over Falsehood \(front view\)]() - [Honour Triumphant over Falsehood \(front view\)]() - [Honour Triumphant over Falsehood \(front view\)]() - [Honour Triumphant over Falsehood \(rear view\)]() - [Joshua]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()