Hans Holbein the Younger - An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments -...
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King Charles II by Jacques Parmentier
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Cosmè Tura 003 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting
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Domenico Corvi - Allegory of Painting - Walters 371011
This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting. Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid, she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that wa... More
Pierre Nicolas Legrand - The Apotheosis of Nelson - Walters 37205
Admiral Nelson, the British naval hero of the Napoleonic wars, was fatally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). In this allegorical scene, Mars, the helmeted god of war, welcomes him onto Mount Olympus, t... More
The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of ...
The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry. Inscribed (top): For George Bowles Esq. English Heritage, Kenwood. (The Ernest Edward Cook Bequest Presented by the National Art-Col... More
An Allegory of Man. Painting, 16th century.
In this allegorical painting, Man is being attacked by the Seven Deadly Sins and Death, but is shielded by the Seven Virtues. The inscription warns of the dangers of worldly vanity, and invites the reader to c... More
Love and Life - Public domain portrait painting
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The Sower of the Systems - G. F. Watts
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Night & Sleep - Public domain drawing
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The worship of Mammon - Drawing. Public domain image.
The Worship of Mammon Public domain photograph of 20th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Earth Mother, 1882, by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) - IMG 7210
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Edward Burne-Jones - The Hours, 1882
The Hours depicts the passing of time, with the same figure representing each stage from morning until evening. Morning is symbolised by this figure waking and brushing her hair whilst by the evening she is sho... More
Edward Burne-Jones, ‘Music’, 1877. Oil on canvas
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Moreelse, Paulus - Girl with a Mirror, an Allegory of Profane Love - 1...
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The allegory of Alfonso D'Avalos
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The allegory of Alfonso D'AvalosFXD
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Allegory of the old and new law
Allegory of the Old and New Law Public domain photograph of 16th-century painting, renaissance or mannerist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An Allegory of Apollo and Minerva as Wisdom and the Arts RMG BHC0992
An Allegory of Apollo and Minerva as Wisdom and the Arts An allegorical decorative panel, depicting the assembly of the gods on Mount Olympus. Apollo, in his personification as the all-seeing, all-knowing sun ... More
Boucher, François - The Setting of the Sun - 1752
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George Frederic Watts - Love and Death - Tate Britain
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Hans Eworth Sir John Luttrell - Public domain scenic painting
Allegorical portrait of Sir John Luttrell Public domain photograph of renaissance portrait painting, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jan Weenix 1697 from Edinburgh NG 2523
Landscape with a Huntsmen and Dead Game (Allegory of the Sense of Smell).[1]
Jean-François de Troy - An Allegory of Time Unveiling Truth - WGA23082
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Nicolas Poussin - Dance to the Music of Time - WGA18303
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Peter Paul Rubens - Allegory on the Blessings of Peace - WGA20333
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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty
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Poussin 2 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Català: Danses per la música del Temps Public domain photograph of a 17th-century mythological painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The dance to the music of time c. 1640
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TIEPOLO - An Allegory with Venus and Time
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TIEPOLO - An Allegory with Venus and Time
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Abraham janssens peace and plenty
Peace and Plenty binding Arrows of Warlabel QS:Len,"Peace and Plenty binding Arrows of War"
Lady Caroline Scott - Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Caroline Scott as 'Winter' Public domain photograph of 18th-century female portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Angelica Kauffman. Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music ...
Oil painting on canvas, Self-portrait the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting by Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 ¿ Rome 1807), signed on the artist's sash: Angelica Kauffn Sc. & P. Pinxit, ... More
Andrea Casali - Allegory
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Lucas Cranach d. Ä. - An Allegory of Melancholy - WGA05719
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Enrico Fanfani - Spring. Painting, National Gallery of Art
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Eworth Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses 1569
Allegoric representation of Elizabeth I with the goddesses Juno, Athena & Venus/Aphrodite. The fact that Juno seems to signal the Queen to walk towards the goddess suggests that the painting was commissioned t... More
Family of Henry VIII Wikivoyage pagebanner
The inscription shows that the work was a gift for Francis Walsingham, to whose family its provenance can be traced. Along the bottom, it reads: "THE QUENE. TO. WALSINGHAM. THIS. TABLET. SENTE. MARKE. OF. HER. ... More
Joris Hoefnagel or Hans Eworth - Queen Elizabeth I & the Three Goddess...
Allegoric representation of Elizabeth I with the goddesses Juno, Athena & Venus/Aphrodite. The fact that Juno seems to signal the Queen to walk towards the goddess suggests that the painting was commissioned t... More
Mrs. Peter Beckford (Hon. Louisa Pitt (1754–1791)), 1782, by Sir Joshu...
*Hon. Louisa Pitt (1754–1791), was born in 1754 (or 1756) in Stratfield-Say, Southampton, Hampshire, England, the daughter of the British diplomat and politician George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721 –1803) and ... More
Henry Frederick Prince of Wales on Horseback
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Valdes leal-alegoria de la salvacion
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Watts – Idle Child of Fancy
Watts, George Frederic; Idle Child of Fancy; Watts Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/idle-child-of-fancy-13389
Frans Francken (I) - Allegory, the Ship of State
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Kessel, Jan van the Elder - Ecclesia umgeben von den Symbolen der Verg...
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Apotheosis of Nelson - Public domain drawing
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Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown Artemisia Genti...
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Hope nursing Love - Bone 1808 - Public domain scenic painting
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Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas ...
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Personificación del Verano - Public domain scan / painting
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The dance to the music of time c. 1640FXD
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William III on Horseback (Kneller)
Português: Guilherme III & II a cavalo como um pacificadorEnglish: William III and II on horseback as a peacemaker
Joshua Reynolds Mercury as Cut Purse miser
Nederlands: Faringdon Collection Trust. This painting is paired with an another allegorical subject using children: Cupid as Link Boy. In this pair, Reynolds mocked the tradition of children representing class... More
Lady Drury's Closet. 17th century painting
View of the paintings from Lady Elizabeth Drury's Closet at Hawstead, Suffolk, painted before 1615, and afterwards moved to Hardwick House near Bury St Edmunds, before purchase in 1924 for the Ipswich Museums ... More
Family of Henry VIII, an Allegory of the Tudor Succession
The inscription shows that the work was a gift for Francis Walsingham, to whose family its provenance can be traced. Along the bottom, it reads: "THE QUENE. TO. WALSINGHAM. THIS. TABLET. SENTE. MARKE. OF. HER. ... More
The Liberal Arts presented to King Charles and Henrietta Maria
An allegorical painting. At the centre is George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, in the guise of Mercury, patron of the arts. The arts appear to the right while in the heavens above appear Kinf Charles I a... More
Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop - The Garden of Love
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Lucas Cranach (I) - Die Melancholie (1528)
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Hans Holbein (II) - An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments (1530s)
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