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Fortitude

painting by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi
VisualArtwork painting Q1109340
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Summary

Fortitude is a painting[1]. Fortitude ranks in the top 6% of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Sandro Botticelli[3]
  • Country: Italy[4]
  • Commissioned by: Tribunale della Mercanzia[5], Tommaso Soderini[6]
  • Movement: Early Renaissance[7]
  • Genre: allegory[8]
  • Depicts: woman[9], sitting[10], fortitude[11], body armor[12], dress[13], sandal[14], throne[15], courage[16], sword[17], robe[18]
  • Made from material: tempera[19], panel[20], plaster[21]
  • Collection: Uffizi Gallery[22]
  • Inventory number: 1606[23]
  • Location: Uffizi Gallery[24]
  • Commons category: Fortitude by Botticelli[25]
  • Inception: 1475[26], 1470[27]
  • Significant event: commission[28]
  • Official website: https://www.uffizi.it/opere/fortezza[29], https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/fortitude[30]
  • Main subject: courage[31]
  • Described at URL: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/-110/17[32], https://web.archive.org/web/20171110203014/http://members.efn.org/~acd/vite/VasariBott.html[33]
  • Described by source: Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects[34]
  • Title: Fortitude[35]
  • Height: 167 cm[36]
  • Width: 87 cm[37]
  • Copyright status: public domain[38]

Why It Matters

Fortitude has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Fortitude is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

Related Entities

Italy Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects public domain Sandro Botticelli Uffizi Gallery

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  22. [24] ↑ . uffizi.it. uffizi.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . uffizi.it. uffizi.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . uffizi.it. uffizi.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Oursana · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → painting
    Commissioned by → Tribunale della Mercanzia, Tommaso Soderini
    Inception → —
    Copyright status → public domain
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