Allegory of Patience (Italian: L'Allegoria della Pazienza) is a painting of c. 1552 by Giorgio Vasari, with input from Michelangelo, for the Bishop of Arezzo Bernadetto Minerbetti.

The semi-nude female figure, her arms held tight across her body perhaps in modesty or "huddling"[2] and "shivering"[3] in the cold, gazes down watching as a water clock slowly erodes a stone inscribed with the Latin DIVTVRNA TOLERANTIA or "abiding patience", which is likely to be a reference to Cicero's De Inventione.

[1][4][note 1] The landscape behind, with buildings but unfigured, and in "frostbitten turquoise", is seen inverted by refraction in the water vessel.

[3] The figure's braided hair gleams in the light, against a backdrop of a moody and sombre sky.

[1][5][note 2] While in respect of the chain, the Allegory in the Palazzo Pitti first attributed to Vasari by Hermann Voss seemingly corresponds more closely to this vision, the presence of the Latin phrase (with a pentimento), selected with input from Annibale Caro, the very absence of physical bonds, emphasizing her choice and virtù, and the urn's clear function as a clepsydra help contribute to the identification.