Allegory of the First Partition of Poland | 1st partition of Poland, showing Catherine II of Russia ( left ), Joseph II of Austria and Frederick the Great of Prussia ( right ) quarelling over their territorial seizures

File: Courbet LAtelier du peintre. jpg | Gustave Courbet, The Artist's Studio ( L ' Atelier du peintre ): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life, 1855

Detail from The Family of Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession, c. 1572, attributed to Lucas de Heere.

File: El Greco-Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool ( Fábula ). JPG | Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool by El Greco

The Artist's Studio | The Artist's Studio ( L ' Atelier du peintre ): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life, 1855, 359 × 598 cm ( 141. 33 × 235. 43 in ), oil on canvas, Paris: Musée d ' Orsay.

Allegory | Allegorical personification of Charity as a mother with three infants by Anthony van Dyck

Allegory showing Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles V ( center ) enthroned over his defeated enemies ( from left to right ): Suleiman the Magnificent, Pope Clement VII, Francis I of France | Francis I, the William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg | Duke of Cleves, the John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony | Duke of Saxony and Philip I of the Landgrave of Hesse.

Clio — detail from The Art of Painting | The Allegory of Painting by Johannes Vermeer

Clio — detail from The Art of Painting | The Allegory of Painting by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Tudor dynasty ( detail ), attributed to Lucas de Heere, Circa | c. 1572: left to right, Philip II of Spain, Mary I of England | Mary, Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII, Edward VI of England | Edward VI, Elizabeth I of England | Elizabeth.

Plafond Allegory of Summer by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, 1684 – 86, Oil painting | oil on canvas and panel, Wilanów Palace, Warsaw.

Allegory of the Constitution of 1812, Francisco de Goya, Nationalmuseum | Swedish National Museum.

Allegory depicting the Pacification of Ghent by Adriaen van de Venne | Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Allegory of Renown, Nancy, France | Nancy

Allegoria della Sapienza. jpg | Allegory of Wisdom

Image: AlfredStevens001. JPG | Allegory of the Night, MSK, Oostende, Belgium

Allegory of a warrior death by Jacopo Ligozzi. jpg | Allegory of a warrior death

The Allegory of April has a depiction of the trio of Graces, one of the earliest Post-classical representations of the naked intertwined dancers in painting.

Examples include Pietro da Cortona's Allegory of Divine Providence in the Palazzo Barberini and Andrea Pozzo's Apotheosis of St Ignatius on the ceiling of the Roman church of Sant ' Ignazio.

Allegory was popular at the time, so " old Christmas " was given a voice to protest his exclusion, along with the form of a rambunctious, jolly old man.

Allegory of Winter by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter with Aeolus ' Kingdom of the Winds, 1683, Wilanów Palace.

Allegory of Heracles with baby Telephus suckled by the doe: fresco from Herculaneum, 1st century CE ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples )

* " Allegory with a Virgin " ( 1479 – 80 ), Oil on oak panel, 38. 3 × 31. 9 cm, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Strang's own Allegory of Death and The Plowman's Wife, have served him with suitable imaginative subjects.

The frescoes on the other walls represent scenes from the lives of Christ and Saint Peter on the entry wall ( mostly ruined due to the later installation of a choir ), The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Allegory of Christian Learning on the left wall, and the large " Crucifixion with the Way to Calvalry and the Descent into Limbo " on the archway of the altar wall.

They number around 80 and span his entire career from his early years in Italy with paintings such as Rubens painting the Allegory of Peace to late works from the end of his Spanish years such as Charles II on Horseback, The prudent Abigail and The Capture of a Fortress.

* An Allegory of Education and Fundamental Orders 1638-1639 in the Connecticut Supreme Court at Hartford ( 1913 ) painted on canvas at Herter's studio at " The Creeks " on Long Island, New York, taken to Hartford and affixed to wall and ceiling with white lead.

Three walls are painted with frescoes consisting of a large assembly of allegorical figures of virtues in the Allegory of Good Government.

Landscape with a Huntsman and Dead Game ( Allegory of the Sense of Smell ) ( National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh )

The " Allegory " segment began with a recitation of a verse from Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet George Seferis ' poem " Mythistorema 3 ".

Altered version of details from An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Bronzino (~ 1545 ), from The National Gallery.

On April 10, 2006, song previews from the upcoming independent release The Allegory of the City were put up on his music page along with the promise of a limited edition version soon being available for pre order.

* Allegory in the Middle Ages-Allegory was a prime mover for the synthesis and transformation between the ancient world mythology ( for example of the Bretons and Gauls ) and the " new " Christian world mythology that spread through France, for example with the Franks.

The show displayed a 1936 treatment of Lucille Lloyd's " California Allegory " triptych, with Queen Califia as the central figure.

The Republic contains Plato's Allegory of the cave with which he explains his concept of The Forms as an answer to the problem of universals.

and together with Rubens, Frans Francken the Younger, van Balen, Frans Snyders and Joos de Momper the Younger on the Allegory of the Senses, two works commissioned on the occasion of the archduke Albert of Austria's visit to Antwerp.

Plafond with Allegory of Autumn by Jerzy Siemiginowski.

Altered version of details from An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Bronzino (~ 1545 ), from The National Gallery.

Its central salon ceiling was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power to glorify the papal Barberini family.

Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi.

Allegory of chastity by Hans Memling

Allegory on writing history by Jacob de Wit ( 1754 ).

Allegory or The Triumph of Justice by Hans von Aachen

The analogy of the divided line immediately follows another Platonic metaphor, that of the sun, and is in turn followed by the Allegory of the Cave.

* Symbolic interpretation of the OT by Philo ( Allegory ).

Another picture in the same collection appears to be a replica of his painting of the " Allegory of Calumny ", as suggested by Lucian's description of a celebrated work by Apelles ; the satire in the original painting, directed against some of his courtier enemies, was the immediate cause of Zuccari's temporary exile from Rome.

Allegoria dell ' immortalità ( Allegory of immortality ), by Giulio Romano.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna

The Allegory of the Cave — also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave — is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate " our nature in its education and want of education " ( 514a ).

Plato's Phaedo contains similar imagery to that of the Allegory of the Cave ; a philosopher recognizes that before philosophy, his soul was " a veritable prisoner fast bound within his body ... and that instead of investigating reality by itself and in itself it is compelled to peer through the bars of its prison ".

A painting by Paolo Veronese is in the collection of the Gallerie dell ' Accademia in Venice and Titian's Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto, using the battle as a background, hangs in the Prado in Madrid.

During the 20th century he has received more recognition, notably by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love ( 1936 ).

Allegory of the Peace of Utrecht by Antoine Rivalz.

Text by Yvonne Scott ‘ Allegory and Legend ’.

Fresco by Andrea di Bonaiuto in the Spanish Chapel: Allegory of the Active and Triumphant Church and of the Dominican order ( c. 1365 )

At Somerset House, also built by his friend Chambers, he prepared the decorations for the interior of the north block, including the rooms into which the Royal Academy moved in 1750, which now house the Courtauld Collection The central panel of the Royal Academy's ante-room was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds but the four compartments in the coves, representing Allegory, Fable, Nature and History, were Cipriani's.

In the large block occupied by the former Medici palace, he painted the ceiling of the Biblioteca Riccardiana ( Allegory of Divine Wisdom ) and the long gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.

The collection also includes other works by various Spanish sculptors, such as the Venus by Bartolomeo Ammanati and the alabaster relief of the Allegory of Francisco I de ’ Medici by Giambologna.