Tag: allegory

Allegoria della castità (c.1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della castità (Allegory of Chastity) c.1505 Oil on panel, 42.9 x 33.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This small panel by Lotto can be dated to early in his career because of stylistic similarities to Allegory of…

Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…

L’apothéose d’Homère (1827)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Homère déifié, dit aussi L’apothéose d’Homère (Homer deified, also known as The Apotheosis of Homer) 1827 Oil on canvas, 386 x 512 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In front of a temple with a pediment inscribed…

Allegoria del Vizio (c.1531)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria del Vizio (Allegory of Vice) c.1531 Tempera on canvas, 14.2 × 85.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria della Virtù c.1531 Musée du Louvre, Paris     See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)

Allegoria della Virtù (c.1531)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria della Virtù (Allegory of Virtue) c.1531 Tempera on canvas, 14.2 × 85.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria del Vizio c.1531 Musée du Louvre, Paris     See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)

Beata Beatrix (c.1864-1870)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…

Cupid as Link Boy (1774)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…

La Charité (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Charité (Charity) 1842 Oil on canvas, 109.5 x 110.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: Seated woman breastfeeding a baby, another on her left arm, child clinging to her right shoulder, another standing behind…

L’Espérance (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Espérance (Hope) 1842 Oil on canvas, 116.5 × 117 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: half-length woman, arms and hands open, white sleeveless tunic under a green drape, face in profile turned to the right. (Louvre)…

La Foi (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Foi (Faith) 1842 Oil on canvas, 120 × 110 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition. Woman with a 3/4 length, dressed in Greek style, diadem on her head, looking at the chalice, ostia, on her…