Tag: allegory

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 Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Portinari, Beatrice (c.1266-1290) | Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)

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…