Allegorical depiction of the Four Seasons ( Horae ) and smaller attendant figures that flank a Roman double-doorway representing the entrance to the afterlife, on a mid-3rd century AD sarcophagus

Allegorical figures from his works — “ Geharnischte Sonette ” (“ Withering Sonnets ”) and “ Weisheit des Brahmanen ” (“ Wisdom of the Brahmans ”) — are situated at the feet of the bronze Rückert.

* Allegorical figures of Great Britain ( 1903 ) and France ( 1904 ), U. S. Custom House, New York, NY, Cass Gilbert, architect.

Image: AllegoryofScience. JPG | Allegorical medal of Science, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Harrisburg

* Swinford, Dean, “ Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility ,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 12. 1 ( 2001 ): 77-89.

Allegorical stories are central to the poetic diction of many cultures, and were prominent in the West during classical times, the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology.

File: La cúpula. jpg | Allegorical ceiling frescoes painted by Raúl Soldi

Allegory | Allegorical depiction of the Roman goddess Abundantia with a cornucopia, by Rubens ( ca.

Powys As an Allegorical Novelist.

# A Preference for Allegorical Interpretation-Finally, Augustine was influenced by the popular allegorical interpretation of Scripture, particularly of The Book of Revelation.

Allegorical elements reference Dante, indicating an interest in literature.

Allegorical painting was raised above other types of history painting ; together they were the grand genre, including paintings with religious, mythological, historical, literary, or allegorical subjects — they embodied some interpretation of life or conveyed a moral or intellectual message.

File: William rush carving his allegorical figur of schuylkill river thomas eakins. jpeg | Thomas Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of Schuylkill River, 1876-1877

Allegorical depiction of Bulgarian autonomy after the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878 ) | Treaty of Berlin.

File: William Rush carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill river. png | Thomas Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River, 1908

The museum's holdings include many of Thomas Eakins's sketches and studies related to his paintings of Rush, along with the most famous painting: William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River ( aka William Rush and His Model ), 1876 – 77, oil on canvas ( mounted on Masonite ), 20 1 / 8 x 26 1 / 8 inches ( 51. 1 x 66. 4 cm ).

File: Fountain in Fairmount Park, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. jpg | Allegorical Figure of The Schuylkill River ( aka Water Nymph and Bittern ) ( 1809 ).

File: William rush carving his allegorical figur of schuylkill river thomas eakins. jpeg | William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River ( aka William Rush and His Model ) by Thomas Eakins ( 1876-77 ), oil on canvas, 20 1 / 8 x 26 1 / 8 inches.

File: William Rush Carving The Allegorical Figure Of The Schuylkill G151A. jpg | Eakins's key to the 1876-77 painting.

The Freshman Year Residential Experience at Arizona State University was developed to improve the freshman experience at Arizona State University and increase student retention figures.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

Rong Cai of Emory University asserts that the sword Green Destiny is passed along to men, and is ( with the exception of Jen ) used only by male figures, making the sword a phallic symbol of masculinity and male authority.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.

On the reverse, two figures related to the University of Helsinki, the prize sponsor, are engraved.

A recent example is The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes ( New York, Oxford University Press USA, 2006 ), which examines the views of some early presidents as well as other political figures of the period.

* 2004: Robert A. Segal, professor of theories of religion at the University of Lancaster, defines " myth " broadly as any story whose " main figures personalities -- divine, human, or even animal.

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

* Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle ~ an online multimedia encyclopedia presented by the King Institute at Stanford University, includes information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events and organizations

Many distinguished figures have taught, worked and studied at the University of Glasgow, including six Nobel laureates and two Prime Ministers, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Andrew Bonar Law.

Arkham is the home of Miskatonic University, which figures prominently in many of Lovecraft's works.

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton has an international reputation for being one of the UK's leading design institutions and it has educated many key figures in the Arts, Turner Prize winners Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread studied at the Faculty of Arts, as did Keith Coventry, the winner of 2010 John Moores Painting Prize, the artist Alison Lapper, Cliff Wright, illustrator of the Harry Potter books, the designer Julien Macdonald and the writer-illustrator Emily Gravett.

The following important figures were also born in Villa Rica: Coca-cola business tycoon and former mayor of Atlanta Asa Griggs Candler ; former Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and tenth president of Emory University Warren Akin Candler ; former baseball star Fred " Dixie " Walker ; former University of Georgia offensive tackle Ken Shackleford ; and former NFL punter Herman " Thunderfoot " Weaver.

Ronald Inden, a historian of India and University of Chicago professor, criticized Mircea Eliade, alongside other intellectual figures ( Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell among them ), for encouraging a " romantic view " of Hinduism.

Rogers matriculated at the University of Wittenberg on 25 November 1540, where he remained for three years, becoming a close friend of Philipp Melanchthon and other leading figures of the early Protestant Reformation.

Many of the most important figures in Iranian political, academic and social life have been associated with the University of Tehran.

According to Ian Hancock, director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, there also existed a trend to downplay the actual figures.

Some of the notable alumni and faculty of Macalester college include architect Cass Gilbert, political figures Kofi Annan ' 61 and Walter Mondale ' 50, businessman and philanthropist DeWitt Wallace ' 11, writers Tim O ' Brien ' 68, Rebecca Otto ' 85, Walter Kirn ( transferred to Princeton University after his first year ) and Christina French Houghton ' 06, a co-founder of Guy French.

He audited lectures at Waseda University in Tokyo, and while a student, was attracted to socialist ideas, meeting with many influential figures in the early socialist movement in Japan.

Carlo Petrini and Massimo Montanari are the leading figures in the creation of the University, whose goal is to promote awareness of good food and nutrition.

He, along with other figures in the leading FSN, was allegedly responsible for calling the Jiu Valley miners to Bucharest on 28 January and June 14, 1990 to end the protests of the citizens gathered in University Square, Bucharest, protests aimed against the ex-communist leaders of Romania.

At the University of Marburg, as one of the most popular and fashionable university teachers in Europe, he increased matriculation figures within five years by about 50 %.