The " Allegory of Music " is a popular theme in painting ; in this example, Lippi uses symbol s popular during the High Renaissance, many of which refer to Greek mythology.

Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric ; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which appears in book VII of The Republic, is a description of such a journey, as are the writings of Teresa of Avila.

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.

The term Platonism is used because such a view is seen to parallel Plato's Theory of Forms and a " World of Ideas " ( Greek: Eidos ( εἶδος )) described in Plato's Allegory of the cave: the everyday world can only imperfectly approximate an unchanging, ultimate reality.

A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is An Allegory of Justice and Vanity.

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 ).

The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun ( 508b – 509c ) and the analogy of the divided line ( 509d – 513e ).

In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher's place in society: to attempt to enlighten the " prisoners ".

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.

' Allegory ' is a key element of Hindu religion and modern day experts in Communications and Business Communications recognise how superior it is as a concept to represent abstract ideas.

# Versuch einer Allegorie (" Attempt at an Allegory ") ( 1766 ), which, although containing the results of much thought and reading, is not conceived in a thoroughly critical spirit.

A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is An Allegory of Justice and Vanity.

The brain in a vat is a contemporary version of the argument given in Hindu Maya illusion, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's " Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly ", and the evil demon in René Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

It is believed that also on this occasion, either Lorenzo il Magnifico or Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco himself, commissioned Botticelli's Allegory of Spring to celebrate the wedding-with Mercury representing Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and Semiramide represented by the central Grace ( or possibly Flora ).

The fame of Artemisia probably intrigued him, and it is not a coincidence that his collection included a painting of great suggestion, the (" Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.

* The relationship between Chaucer's Troilus and his source material is discussed extensively by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love.

The bottom third of the panel belongs to Yale University Art Gallery and is exhibited under the title Allegory of Gluttony.

Allegory is particularly important in Silius, and he includes such figures as Fides, faith, in Book 2, Italia in 15, and Virtus and Voluptas also in Book 15, continuing a trend towards allegory which was significant in Statius, Silius ' contemporary.

Allegory And Self is a LP released by Psychic TV in 1988 that comprises a varied selection of their work.

The Allegory of the Olive Tree in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans ( which reappears in greatly expanded form in the Book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon ) refers to the scattering and gathering of Israel.

The Allegory may be related to Plato's Theory of Forms, according to which the " Forms " ( or " Ideas "), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality.

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.

Further paintings by Tiepolo have been added, including an entire frescoed ceiling, depicting ' The Allegory of Merit ', which was rescued from Palazzo Barbarigo, now in the throne room.

In Plato's Allegory of the cave, which appears in the Republic Book 7 ( 514a – 520a ), he writes ( speaking, as he does in many of his works, through the character of Socrates ):

In 1937, Lucille Lloyd unveiled her triptych mural " Origin and Development of the Name of the State of California ", also known as " California Allegory ", which was displayed at the State Building in Los Angeles until 1975 when the building was demolished for safety reasons.

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.

His essay, " The Dark Wood of Postmodernity ( Space, Faith, Allegory )," which treats religious themes in the work of Marxian cultural theorist Frederic Jameson and in postmodern culture generally, was awarded the Modern Language Association's William Riley Parker Prize in 2005.

Examples include Men of the South ( 1921 ) which shows a group of IRA men ready to ambush a military vehicle and An Allegory ( c. 1922 ) which uses an unlikely clustering of figures to represent the fractures in the nascent Irish state.

3 very peculiar " pasos " compose this congregation, 2 of which are unique to Lucena: that of the " Holy Faith Allegory " and also that of " Jesus washing St Peter's feet ".

The inside features the mural Allegory of Coffee and Bananas by Milanese artist Aleardo Villa, which is nowadays featured on the five colón bill.

Guest characters included Piper the elderly cleaning man, Eric the Werewolf ( Ian Sears ); an additional security guard who was a gorilla ; and Mary the Christmas Allegory ( Lia Williams ), who gave birth to consumer products.

His Allegory of the Planets and Continents depicts Apollo embarking on his daily course ; deities around him symbolize the planets ; allegorical figures ( on the cornice ) represent the four continents Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

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.

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distinguishes between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds: the sensible world and the intelligible world.

Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi.

Allegory has been used widely in ancient sacred texts of Hinduism and all the religions that have sprouted off it ; and throughout the history of art in all forms of artwork.

" Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin ( 1934 ) as a Stalinist Film.

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.

In 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists, and in 1845 he contributed a cartoon, An Allegory of Justice, to a competition for designs for the mural decoration of the new Palace of Westminster.

He wrote, in Letter 131 of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, " I dislike Allegory.

Nicolas Régnier: Allegory of Vanity — Pandora, c. 1626.

The soul, once separated from the body, spends an indeterminate amount of time in " formland " ( see The Allegory of the Cave in The Republic ) and then assumes another body.

b: Parable, Allegory.

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

Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Allegory of Dead Poland, St. Nicholas Cathedral, Kalisz

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