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| Raphael Allegorical Figure ca. 1514-15 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Nicolò dell' Abate Allegorical Figure ca. 1550 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Allegorical Figure ca. 1550-1600 drawing Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Pietro Liberi Allegorical Figure ca. 1670 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Andreas Göding Allegorical Portrait of Johann Georg I of Saxony 1624 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Franz Anton Maulbertsch Allegorical Scene ca. 1759-60 oil on canvas (study for ceiling fresco) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Carlo Maratti Study for Allegorical Scene in Pendentive ca. 1680 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi Allegorical Composition ca. 1515 drawing Biblioteca Reale, Turin |
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| Gaspare Diziani Allegorical Subject ca. 1750 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| attributed to Charles Meynier Amor Omnibus Idem 1795 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Alessandro Magnasco St Augustine and the Child on the Beach (Allegory on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity) ca. 1740 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Figure of Liberality 17th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Parmigianino The Three Ages of Man ca. 1550 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Father Time 16th century bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pompeo Batoni Allegory of the Visual Arts ca. 1739-40 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Giulio Campi Allegory of Vanity 1520 oil on canvas Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
Behold that great Plotinus swim
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes.
Scattered on the level grass
Or winding through the grove
Plato there and Minos pass,
There stately Pythagoras
And all the choir of Love.
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes.
Scattered on the level grass
Or winding through the grove
Plato there and Minos pass,
There stately Pythagoras
And all the choir of Love.
– W.B. Yeats (1931)