Allegory_of_Virtue_and_Vice_(Veronese)
Allegory of Virtue and Vice (Veronese)
Painting by Paolo Veronese
Allegory of Virtue and Vice or The Choice Between Virtue and Vice or The Choice of Hercules is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created circa 1565 in Venice, Italy and now located in the Frick Collection. It is a large-scale allegorical painting depicting Hercules' struggle between virtue and vice, personified here by the figures of the two women physically pulling him in different directions.