Sunday, February 1, 2026

Resonant

Lorenzo Lippi
Allegory of Innocence
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Jan Swart van Groningen
Allegorical Figure of Ira (Wrath)
before 1553
drawing
British Museum

Heinrich Aldegrever
Allegorical Figure of Ira (Wrath)
1552
engraving
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous French Artist after an engraving by Jan Sadeler
Allegory of Water
ca. 1600-1650
glazed terracotta relief plaque
Musée du Louvre

Jan Brueghel the Elder
Allegory of Air
1621
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Corrado Giaquinto
Allegory of Winter
ca. 1740-50
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Daedalus as Allegory of Sculpture
(his famous Labyrinth is depicted in the background)
ca. 1500
marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Lucas van Leyden
Allegorical Figure of Justice (Iusticia)
1530
engraving
British Museum

Alessandro Algardi
Allegorical Figures of Immortality
1644
drawing (funerary design)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jacques Sarazin
Allegorical Figures of Virtue and Victory
 before 1660
drawing (sketches for sculpture)
British Museum

Andrea Pozzo
Allegorical Figures creating a portrait
of Vittorio Amadeo II, Duke of Savoy

ca. 1688
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Monogrammist I.K. (German printmaker)
Allegorical Scene with Knight threatening Justice
ca. 1535-50
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

John Bellany
Allegory
1964
 oil on panels (triptych)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jean Jouy
Allegory of the Insurrection of 10 August 1792
(episode in the French Revolution)
ca. 1793
agate cameo
Musée du Louvre

Abraham Janssens
Allegory of Joy and Melancholy
1628
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
Allegory of Love and Charity
ca. 1508
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Thomas Stothard
Allegory of Justice
ca. 1780
drawing
British Museum

On the Eretrians taken prisoners by the Persians (490 BC)

Leaving behind for ever the thundering Aegean,
Finding in Ecbatana these midland graves,
We take our farewell of all things Eretrian –
Of Athens, Euboea, and the encircling waves. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Clive Sansom