Allegory of Happiness is an oil-on-copper painting by the ItalianMannerist painterBronzino, probably first produced for theStudiolo of Francesco I, signedBROZ. FAC. and now in theUffizi inFlorence.[1][2][3][4] It is now in a fluted and gilded 17th-century wooden frame.[5] Most art historians date it to around 1567, and it is first mentioned in the Uffizi inventory in 1635/8.[6][7]
Happiness is represented as a young woman with acornucopia andcaduceus in the centre of the painting withCupid as a girl, representing love.[8]Prudence andJustice stand on either side of her, whilst the conquered enemies of peace and Fortune, with her wheel, lie at her feet.[9][10] Graham Smith argues that this ideal state of happiness is Florence, and that it celebratesCosimo I for the great public well-being of the time.[11]
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