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 of Music ( c. 1500 ) Tempera on panel, 61 × 51 cm.

* Allegory of Music ( Erato ) ( c. 1500 )

* Tubalcain ( Allegory of Music ) Museo Horne Florence

Allegory of Music

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.

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

* 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Allegory is a device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.

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 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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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