Allegory in art

                                    Jan Brueghel the Elder, Allegory of Sight and Smell

                                      Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sense of Sight

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And original paintings.

                                                                        Rubens, Bacchanalia

                                 Rubens, The Virgin and Child in a Garland of Flowers

                                             Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sense of Hearing

                                          Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sense of Taste

                                                 Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sense of Touch

                                       Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sense of Smell

                       

                              Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste

                                               Gérard de Lairesse, Allegory of the Five Senses

                                   Agnolo Bronzino, Venus, Cupid and Time (Allegory of Lust)

                                       Giovanni Bellini, Four Allegories: Lust (or Perseverance)

                                      Giovanni  Bellini,  Four Allegories: Falsehood (or Wisdom)

                                         Giovanni Bellini,  Four Allegories: Fortune (or Melancholy)

                                      Giovanni Bellini, Four Allegories: Prudence (or Vanity)

                                                             Correggio, Allegory of Vices

                                                  Correggio, Allegory of Virtues

                                                 Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory of Virtue and Vice

                                                          Filippo Parodi, Allegory of Vice

                                        Hieronymus Bosch, Allegory of Gluttony and Lust

 

                                               Theodoor van Thulden, Allegory of Vice

                            Giotto di Bondone, Franciscan Allegories: Allegory of Chastity (detail)

                                                              Peter Candid,  Allegory of Vanity

                                           Agnolo Bronzino, Allegory of Happiness

                    Giotto di Bondone,  Franciscan Allegories: Allegory of Obedience detail

                                               Sandro Botticelli, Allegory of Abundance

                                                      Bernardino Mei, Allegory of Fortune

                                              Jacob Jordaens, Allegory of Fertility

                                            Jacob Jordaens, Allegory of Fertility

                              Francesco del Cossa, Allegory of April: Triumph of Venus (detail)

                                                 François Boucher, Allegory of Music

                                                            François Boucher, Allegory of Painting

                                                        Dosso Dossi, Allegory of Music

                                             Filippo Lippi, Allegory of Music or Erato

                                        Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Allegory of Painting

                                               Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Allegory of Sculpture

                                  Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Painting and Drawing Instructing Love

                                                        Franz von Stuck,  Allegory of Painting

                                                       Hans Rottenhammer, Allegory of the Arts

                                     Jacob de Backer, Allegory of the Three Ages of Man

                                            Jacopo de' Barbari, Allegory (verso of the Portrait of a Man)

                                   Francesco del Cossa, Allegory of May: Triumph of Apollo detail

                                       Dosso Dossi, Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules)

                                                                    Karel Dujardin, Allegory

                                          Louis Finson, Allegory of the Four Elements

                                                  Johann Heiss, Allegory of Winter

                                       Bartolomeo Manfredi, Allegory of the Four Seasons

                                                  Gérard de Lairesse, Allegory of the Freedom of Trade

                                                   Le Nain brothers, Allegory of Victory

                                                Leonardo da Vinci, Allegory with wolf and eagle

                                                         Pietro Liberi, Allegory of Temperance

                               Master of the Fontainebleau School,  Mythological Allegory

                                       Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Allegory of the Alba

                                   Franz Anton Maulbertsch,  Allegory on the Fate of Art

                                                                Antonio de Pereda, Allegory

 

                           Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Allegory with Venus and Time

 

                        Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Allegory of the Planets and Continents

                                             Luca Ferrari,  Allegory of Jealousy

                                          Paolo Veronese,  Allegory of Love, I: Infidelity

                                               Paolo Veronese,  The Allegory of Love II: Scorn

                                            Paolo Veronese,  Allegory of Love, III: Respect

                                            Paolo Veronese,  Allegory of Love, IV: Happy Union

                                                Rubens, Allegory on the Blessings of Peace

                                                         Peter Wtewael,  Allegory of Love

                                             Annibale Carracci, Allegory of Truth and Time

                                        Jean François de Troy,  Allegory of Time Unveiling Truth

 

                                               Anton Raphael Mengs, Allegory of History