# Cosimo I as Augustus [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. ## Related artworks - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Cosimo I as Augustus]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross]() - [Equity and Rigour]() - [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]()