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| Hans Rottenhammer Allegory of the Arts ca. 1590-1610 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Benigno Bossi Allegory of the Arts ca. 1760 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Michael Willmann Allegory of Sculpture ca. 1680 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Charles Mellin Allegory of Painting ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Pierre Mignard Allegory of Painting 1685 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Niccolò Vicentino after Parmigianino Allegory of Strength ca. 1530-40 chiaroscuro woodcut Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Jacques de Létin Allegorical Figure of Geometry ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Armand Cambon Heroic Poetry and Romantic Poetry 1840 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Stefano della Bella Six Women as Allegorical Figures of the Sciences ca. 1650-60 drawing (study for thesis print) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous German Artist Allegorical Figure of Scholarship 1702-1704 sandstone relief (architectural ornament) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Lorenzo Loli after Elisabetta Sirani Allegory of Learning 1660-70 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Reginald Marsh Untitled (Allegorical Figure of Fame) 1930 watercolor Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Palma il Giovane Personification of Glory 1611 etching (for drawing manual) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous German Artist Allegory of Failure on Life's Journey (Sleeping Pilgrim) 1519 painted lindenwood relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Vision of Antiquity - Symbol of Form ca. 1885 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Robert Rauschenberg Allegory 1959-60 oil paint and found objects on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
Barabas [in his Counting-house]:
Well fare the Arabians who so richly pay
The things they traffique for with wedge of gold,
Whereof a man may easily in a day
Tell that which may maintaine him all his life.
The needy groome that never fingred groat,
Whereof a man may easily in a day
Tell that which may maintaine him all his life.
The needy groome that never fingred groat,
Would make a miracle of thus much coyne:
But he whose steele-bard coffers are cramb'd full,
But he whose steele-bard coffers are cramb'd full,
And all his life time hath bin tired,
Wearying his fingers ends with telling it,
Would in his age be loath to labour so,
And for a pound to sweat himselfe to death:
Give me the Merchants of the Indian Mynes,
That trade in mettall of the purest mould;
The wealthy Moore, that in the Easterne rockes
Without controule can picke his riches up,
And in his house heape pearle like pibble-stones,
Receive them free, and sell them by the weight;
And for a pound to sweat himselfe to death:
Give me the Merchants of the Indian Mynes,
That trade in mettall of the purest mould;
The wealthy Moore, that in the Easterne rockes
Without controule can picke his riches up,
And in his house heape pearle like pibble-stones,
Receive them free, and sell them by the weight;
Bags of fiery Opals, Saphires, Amatists,
Jacints, hard Topas, grasse-greene Emeraulds,
Beauteous Rubyes, sparkling Diamonds,
And seildsene costly stones of so great price,
As one of them indifferently rated,
And of a Carrect of this quantity,
And of a Carrect of this quantity,
May serve in perill of calamity
To ransome great Kings from captivity.
This is the ware wherein consists my wealth:
To ransome great Kings from captivity.
This is the ware wherein consists my wealth:
And thus me thinkes should men of judgement frame
Their meanes of traffique from the vulgar trade,
And as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
Infinite riches in a little roome.
Their meanes of traffique from the vulgar trade,
And as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
Infinite riches in a little roome.
– Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, scene i (1592)