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| Salvator Rosa Allegory of Painting before 1673 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Allegory of Night ca. 1680-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Allegory - Old man with skull and child with mask before 1680 drawing British Museum |
ALLEGORY – Description of a subject under the guise of some other subject of aptly suggestive resemblance.
"Properly and in his principall vertue Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translative and wrested from the owne signification, nevertheless applied to another not altogether contrary, but having much conveniencie with it." – George Puttenham (attributed) in The Arte of English Poesie, 1589
"These two mothers and the children borne of them were Allegories, that is, figures of some other thing mystically signified by them." – William Whateley in Prototypes, or, The Primary Precedent, 1639
– definition and citations from the Oxford English Dictionary
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| Andrea Camassei Allegorical figures in landscape frontispiece design for Documenti d'Amore by Francesco da Barberino ca. 1640 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Cornelis Bloemaert after Andrea Camassei Allegorical figures in landscape frontispiece for Documenti d'Amore by Francesco da Barberino ca. 1640 engraving British Museum |
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| Pietro Testa Allegory of Truth or Virtue before 1650 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Pietro Testa Allegory of Genius escaping Time ca. 1644 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Andrea Sacchi Allegorical ceiling design ca. 1640 drawing British Museum |
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| Domenichino Allegorical figure of Charity ca. 1622-27 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| François Chauveau Allegorical composition depicting Delights of Philosophy ca. 1658 etching British Museum |
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| Johann Friedrich Greuter after Innocenzo Martini Allegory of the Borghese family with shrine to Apollo ca. 1620-25 engraving British Museum |
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| Ciro Ferri Choice of Hercules (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) ca. 1670-80 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans von Aachen Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance 1602 canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Frans Francken the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Younger Landscape with Allegories of the Four Elements 1635 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |