Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Embodied Abstractions, Symbolic Depictions - I

Nicolas Joseph Delin
Allegory of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
1786
oil on canvas
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Joseph Adam von Mölk
Allegory on the Coronation
of Pope Clement XIII

ca. 1758
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Allegory in Honor of the Collegio Romano
ca. 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Gregorio Guglielmi
Apotheosis of the House of Austria
ca. 1759
oil on canvas
(modello for ceiling painting)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
Justice disarmed by Innocence and applauded by Prudence
1766
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Johann Georg Kern
Beaker with Relief Figures
representing the Seven Liberal Arts

before 1698
ivory
Národní Galerie, Prague

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Love the Sentinel
ca. 1773-76
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anton Eisenhoit
The Harlot of Rome
(allegorical satire against the Church)
1589
hand-colored engraving
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

workshop of Jacob Jordaens
Allegory with Angel crushing Grapes
flanked by Hercules and Figure of Fortitude

ca. 1650
drawing, with watercolor
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Rembrandt
Unconscious Patient
(allegory of the sense of smell)
ca. 1624-25
oil on panel
(discovered in 2015 in New Jersey)
Leiden Collection, New York

Wolfgang Huber
Allegory of Salvation, with Donor
ca. 1545-50
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
Revelation of Divine Wisdom
1778
oil on canvas
(study for ceiling fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Govert Flinck
Allegory of the Birth and Death
of Elector Wilhelm Heinrich of Brandenburg

1648-49
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Anonymous Italian Artist
Allegory in Honor of Antonio Vaini
18th century
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Nicolaes Verkolje
Minerva commanding Venus and Cupid to sleep
(allegory of wisdom defeating passion)
ca. 1720
watercolor
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacopo Zucchi
The Coral Fishers, or, The Kingdom of Amphitrite
(allegory of the discovery of America)
ca. 1585
oil on copper
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Three Movements 

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;
What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?

– W.B. Yeats (1933)