Friday, August 23, 2024

Embodied Abstractions, Symbolic Depictions - IV

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