Justice

Justice, painted around 1490 and now in the Uffizi Gallery, depicts the allegorical figure of Justice — one of the four Cardinal Virtues (with Prudence, Fortitude, and Temperance) that were standard subjects for civic and decorative painting in Renaissance Florence. The attribution to Biagio d'Antonio places this within the tradition of Florentine allegorical painting for civic spaces; Justice was often depicted for courtrooms, council chambers, and civic buildings as a reminder of the moral foundations of legal authority. The Uffizi context suggests this panel entered the Medici or Florentine public collections, preserving it alongside major Renaissance masterworks.

Tempera on panel with Justice depicted according to her conventional attributes: the sword of enforcement and the scales of impartial measurement, often combined with the blindfold of impartiality though this latter attribute was not yet universal in the fifteenth century. Biagio rendered the allegorical figure as a dignified, nobly dressed woman in the Florentine female portrait tradition.