Charity (Pollaiuolo)

Charity is a 1469 oil on panel painting by Piero del Pollaiuolo, now in the Uffizi in Florence.

[1] Florence's Tribunale della Mercanzia (the body overseeing all the city's guilds) commissioned the artist to paint seven works portraying the cardinal virtues in a contract dated 18 August 1469.

They were intended to decorated the seat-backs in its audience hall on piazza della Signoria.

[2] After the magistracy moved into the Uffizi, the paintings were exhibited in the gallery from 1717 onwards after the Tribunale was suppressed.

In 2003, thanks to a donation from the Fratelli Piccini jewellers in Florence in honour of its centenary, the painting was restored[3]