The Fortitude (Cardinal Virtue): Armor-clad; she caresses a lion with her left hand while grasping a sapling of black oak with her right. The oak tree symbolizes strength and alludes to the Della Rovere family to which Pope Julius II belonged. A putto representing Charity harvests acorns from the oak branch.- Detail of 'The Cardinal and Theological Virtues' a lunette fresco by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520).Three of the cardinal virtues (Fortitude; prudence; temperance) are personified as statuesque women seated in a bucolic landscape and the theological virtues are depicted by putti. - Painted in the Stanza della Segnatura (Room of the Signatura; Salle de la Signature; Saal der Signatur) between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello (Raphael Rooms; Chambres de Raphael; Stanzen des Raffael); in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.Vatican museums. 2021.