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| Lorenzo Lippi Allegory of Innocence ca. 1630 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jan Swart van Groningen Allegorical Figure of Ira (Wrath) before 1553 drawing British Museum |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Lucas van Leyden Allegorical Figure of Justice (Iusticia) 1530 engraving British Museum |
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| Alessandro Algardi Allegorical Figures of Immortality 1644 drawing (funerary design) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacques Sarazin Allegorical Figures of Virtue and Victory before 1660 drawing (sketches for sculpture) British Museum |
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| Andrea Pozzo Allegorical Figures creating a portrait of Vittorio Amadeo II, Duke of Savoy ca. 1688 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Monogrammist I.K. (German printmaker) Allegorical Scene with Knight threatening Justice ca. 1535-50 hand-colored woodcut British Museum |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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