The open ceiling, with allegorical and classical figures thrown in masses against the sky: the closed frieze, formally divided into historical scenes and tightly tied to the stone walls, belong in their large ordering to the line of Correggio and his Baroque followers.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

* The great arcades are decorated with allegorical figures representing characters in Roman mythology ( by J. Pradier ).

The pediment over the main entrance is decorated by sculptures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilisation, consisting of fifteen allegorical figures, installed in 1852.

She enters into a dialogue, a movement between question and answer, with these allegorical figures that is from a completely female perspective.

They are adorned with allegorical figures of the times of day ( Night & Day on Giuliano's side and Dusk & Dawn on Lorenzo's side.

The monument, which was designed and sculpted by Pierre-Étienne Monnot, features the pope seated upon the throne above a sarcophagus with a base-relief showing the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by John III Sobieski, flanked by two allegorical figures representing Faith and Fortitude.

Around the sides are bas relief panels, depicting with allegorical female figures the arts and sciences ( Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Painting, Astronomy, Philosophy, and Theology ).

Genre painting is a term for paintings where the main subject features human figures to whom no specific identity attaches-in other words, figures are not portraits, characters from a story, or allegorical personifications.

As a Pre-Raphaelite illustrator, Holiday took reference to earlier artists and earlier styles, where allegorical figures ( often women ) depicted abstract concepts like care, hope, religion, liberty etc.

It is one of a series of allegorical figures commissioned by the estate of E. W. Scripps to depict California history.

The Madonna with Child portrays the Child being displayed to the faithful, on a throne flanked by two sphinxes, allegorical figures of knowledge.

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

Both fountains had the same form: a stone basin ; six figures of tritons or naiads holding fish spouting water ; six seated allegorical figures, their feet on the prows of ships, supporting the pedestal, of the circular vasque ; four statues of different forms of genius in arts or crafts supporting the upper inverted upper vasque ; whose water shot up and then cascaded down to the lower vasque and then the basin.

The north fountain was devoted to the Rivers, with allegorical figures representing the Rhone and the Rhine, the arts of the harvesting of flowers and fruits, harvesting and grape growing ; and the geniuses of river navigation, industry, and agriculture.

Female allegorical figures can be found on the north facade cornice representing Integrity, Courage, Mercy, Temperance, Prudence and Learning.

* The Stucchi or Priùli Room has a double name due to both the stucco works that adorn the vault and lunettes, dating from the period of Doge Marino Grimani ( 1595 – 1605 ), and the presence of the armorial bearings of Doge Antonio Priùli ( 1618 – 1623 ), which are to be seen on the fireplace, surmounted by allegorical figures.

There were also allegorical figures of Justice and Mercy.

He was arguably the first Italian to paint landscapes with figures as movable pictures in their own frames with no devotional, allegorical, or historical purpose — and the first whose colours possessed that ardent, glowing, and melting intensity which was so soon to typify the work of all the Venetian School.

** The Wedekindhaus, a 16th century patrician house, is characterized by its high, ornately carved storeys including their ledges with depictions of allegorical figures.

He also made mythical and allegorical figures.

The obverse of this 1959 solid gold 1 Celeston coin features the profile of Ruth Mangan as the allegorical figure " Magnanimity ".

Apollos, portrayed as both outspoken and scholarly, may have captivated his hearers by teaching " wisdom " in the allegorical style of Philo.

As they themselves have no sight, they wish to deprive the traveler of his own eyes in this allegorical tale of stagnation.

He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

" Davidson posits that Snorri may have " earlier turned the goddess of death into an allegorical figure, just as he made Hel, the underworld of shades, a place ' where wicked men go ,' like the Christian Hell ( Gylfaginning 3 ).

According to Swinford, this change can be attributed in part to the fact that " science and technical culture have changed perceptions of the natural world, have significantly changed the natural world itself, thereby altering the vocabulary of symbols applicable to epistemological and allegorical attempts to understand it.

" Thus irreal works such as Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and Jorge Luis Borges ' Ficciones can be seen as an attempt to find a new allegorical language to explain our changed perceptions of the world that have been brought about by our scientific and technical culture, especially concepts such as quantum physics or the theory of relativity.

Tolkien himself might have disagreed with an allegorical interpretation.

The Hobbit introduces literary concepts, notably allegory, to young readers, as the work has been seen to have allegorical aspects reflecting the life and times of the author.

* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

They would not have thanked anyone for any allegorical explanation of some portions of the Holy Bible which is a stumbling block to some sinners, and possibly some saints.

Modern academics have suggested this tale is an allegorical explanation of the fact that kumara will not grow south of Banks Peninsula.

Both within and apart from the debates surrounding the thematic and allegorical significance of " A Hunger Artist ," critics have explored a number of other issues.

These included Patrick Evans ’ s bio-critical contribution for the " Twayne's World Authors Series ," Janet Frame ( 1977 ), Gina Mercer's feminist reading of the novels and autobiographies, Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions ( 1994 ), and Judith Dell Panny's allegorical approach to the works, I have what I gave: The fiction of Janet Frame ( 1992 ).

The main narrator of the poem in all the versions is named Will, with allegorical resonances clearly intended, and Langland ( or Longland ) is thought to be indicated as a surname through apparent puns ; e. g., at one point the narrator remarks: " I have lyved in londe ... my name is longe wille " ( B. XV. 152 ).

An American Songwriter article in 2012 suggested that Cooder's recent string of solo albums have often taken on an allegorical, sociopolitical bent.

From this period date several paintings of trout, " hooked and bleeding from the gills ", that have been interpreted as allegorical self-portraits of the exiled artist.

In the second fragment, the narrator is able to kiss the rose, but then the allegorical character Jealousy builds a fortress encircling it so that the narrator does not have access to it.

Jacobus de Voragine's etymologies have parallels in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, in which linguistically accurate derivations are set out beside allegorical and figurative explanations.

The work professes to be an interpretation of an allegorical picture of a tablet on which the whole of human life with its dangers and temptations was symbolically represented, and which is said to have been dedicated by someone in the temple of Cronus at Athens or Thebes.

Christians have considered allegorical interpretations of Genesis since long before the development of Darwin's theory of evolution, or Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism.

There is an allegorical story referring to the owner through statues and water features which have mythological references.

: Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty ; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation ; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations ; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age ; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur ' án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems ; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest ; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation ; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples ; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán ; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary ; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad ; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn ; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as " Return ," " Resurrection ," " Seal of the Prophets " and " Day of Judgment "; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation ; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the " City of God ," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.