Paolo Fiammingo Ancient Gods in a Landscape (Allegory of the Five Senses) ca. 1575 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Johann Georg Kern Beaker with Relief Figures representing the Five Senses before 1698 ivory Národní Galerie, Prague |
Jacob Adriaensz Backer Violinist (Allegory of the Sense of Hearing) ca. 1633-35 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
attributed to Danese Cattaneo Mars (Allegory of Summer and Fire) ca. 1545 bronze Detroit Institute of Arts |
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, London Vulcan (Allegory of Fire) ca. 1765-70 porcelain Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, London Neptune (Allegory of Water) ca. 1752-55 porcelain Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Bernardino Mei The Three Fates with Alexander the Great, blessed by Fame and trampling Time ca. 1667 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum. Ohio |
Antoine Coypel Design for Allegory on the 1667 Spanish Defeat by the French ca. 1700 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum. Ohio |
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Allegory of the Immaculate Conception ca. 1533-36 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Gérard de Lairesse Allegory of Commerce and Prosperity with Medici Coat of Arms ca. 1690 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Hendrik Goltzius Personification of Avarice 1593 engraving High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Adriaen de Vries Empire triumphant over Avarice 1610 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Massimiliano Soldani after Giambologna Virtue triumphant over Vice ca. 1710-20 bronze Detroit Institute of Arts |
Joseph Chinard La Liberté et l'Égalité 1793 plaster relief modello Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
Giambattista Tiepolo Study for Ceiling Decoration with Personification of Counsel ca. 1762 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Simon Vouet Allegorical Scene with Venus, Mars, Cupid and Time ca. 1625-27 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
from Coole and Ballylee, 1931
Upon the border of that lake's a wood
Now all dry sticks under a wintry sun,
And in a copse of beeches there I stood,
For Nature's pulled her tragic buskin on
And all the rant's a mirror of my mood:
At sudden thunder of the mounting swan
I turned about and looked where branches break
The glittering reaches of the flooded lake.
– W.B. Yeats