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Title
The Ship of Fortune
Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Artist Life Dates
1606-1669
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1633
Accession Number
1949/1.116
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 9.35029
Primary Keywords
allegory
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Title
Poetry and Music
Artist
Ulysses Ricci
Physical Description
Broken disc.
Artist Life Dates
1888-1960
Century
20th-century
Object Creation Date
circa 1900-1920
Accession Number
1920.3
Medium and Support
plaster
relevance
rank 9.24518
Primary Keywords
allegory
music
Title
Study for a Ceiling with Allegorical Figures (recto); Architectural sketch (vers
Artist
Anonymous Italian
Century
Late 16th century
Object Creation Date
late 16th century
Accession Number
1970/2.92
Medium and Support
pen, brown ink and brown wash, laid down
relevance
rank 9.24518
Primary Keywords
allegory
ceilings
Title
The Calumny of Apelles
Artist
Girolamo Mocetto
Artist Life Dates
circa 1458-1531
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1505-1507; printed 1540s
Accession Number
1968/1.122
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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rank 9.24518
Primary Keywords
allegory
calumny
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Title
Miserere. Pl. 12. Le dur métier de vivre... It is hard to live...
Artist
Georges Rouault
Artist Life Dates
1871-1958
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1922
Accession Number
1950/1.157
Medium and Support
aquatint and etching on paper
relevance
rank 9.14240
Primary Keywords
allegory
males
seated
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Title
Hope and Despair II
Artist
Ernst Barlach
Artist Life Dates
1870-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1931
Accession Number
1957/2.22
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
relevance
rank 9.14240
Primary Keywords
allegory
kneeling
seated
Title
Allegorical Figure for Chicago World's Fair Columbian Exposition
Artist
Julian Weir
Artist Life Dates
1852-1919
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1893
Accession Number
1987/1.186
Medium and Support
black and white chalk on brown paper covered board
relevance
rank 9.04189
Primary Keywords
allegorical
allegory
females
woman
Title
Divine Wisdom and Human Wisdom
Artist
Domenico Maria Canuti
Artist Life Dates
1620-1684
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1680
Accession Number
1970/2.35
Medium and Support
pen and iron gall ink with white and gray wash over graphite on gray-green paper
relevance
rank 9.04189
Primary Keywords
allegory
clouds
figures
winged
Title
The Cook and his Wife
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
Two figures dominate the image with little reference to setting other than a low horizon line and some pebbles in the lower left. A man stands tothe lelft wearing simple tradesman's clothes; in his right hand he holds a ladle and another cooking implement. A knife in its sheath hangs at his waist. On his left shoulder stands a bird wtih wings open that is facing the man. To the right is a woman with a headdress and veil and cloak wrapped over one shoulder and in front of her.
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1496-1497
Accession Number
1963/1.93
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
relevance
rank 9.04189
Primary Keywords
allegory
ladle
standing
wife
Title
Untitled (Allegorical Figures, Apollo, and Mercury Presenting Bounty to America)
Artist
David Claypoole Johnston
Artist Life Dates
(active 1799 - 1865)
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1799-1865
Accession Number
1987/1.188
Medium and Support
graphite, ink and brush, heightened with white on heavy, wove paper, squared for
relevance
rank 9.04189
Primary Keywords
allegorical
allegory
apollo
mercury
Title
Allegory Presented to M and Mme Cuisy on Their Wedding Anniversary, July 30, 176
Artist
Gilles Demarteau
Artist Life Dates
1729-1776
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
1722-1776
Accession Number
1969/2.71
Medium and Support
crayon manner engraving on off-white laid paper
relevance
rank 8.94356
Primary Keywords
allegory
birds
dogs
putti
reclining
Title
Ceiling Sketch with Allegorical and Mythological Figures
Artist
Palma il Giovane
Artist Life Dates
(Venice, 1544 - 1628, Venice)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1544-1628
Accession Number
1947/2.5
Medium and Support
pen and wash with gray crayon underdrawings on off-white laid paper
relevance
rank 8.94356
Primary Keywords
allegory
ceilings
clouds
figures
mythology
Title
An Urn Decorated with Two Seated Figures Personifying Justice and Prudence, the
Artist
Anonymous Italian
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
mid 18th century
Accession Number
1959/2.53
Medium and Support
graphite, pen and bistre ink with gray wash
relevance
rank 8.94356
Primary Keywords
allegory
bust
seated
sword
urns
Title
Vari Capricci. No. 8. Death Giving Audience
Artist
Giovanni Batttista Tiepolo
Artist Life Dates
(Venice, 1696 - 1770, Madrid)
Century
18th Century
Object Creation Date
1743
Accession Number
1951/2.76
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 8.94356
Primary Keywords
allegory
death
dogs
seated
standing
Title
Allegory of the Holy Catholic Faith
Artist
Marcantonio Franceschini
Artist Life Dates
1648-1729
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
17th century
Accession Number
1970/2.10
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with gray wash and black chalk
relevance
rank 8.84735
Primary Keywords
allegory
buildings
christianity
flowers
putti
reclining
Title
Allegory
Artist
Fortunato Duranti
Artist Life Dates
1787-1863
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1948/1.43
Medium and Support
pen, wash and graphite on white paper
relevance
rank 8.75318
Primary Keywords
allegory
child
figures
head
nudes
odalisque
woman
Title
Self-Portrait with Allegorical Figures
Artist
Anonymous French
Artist Life Dates
()
Century
18th century?
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1970/2.102
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with white chalk
relevance
rank 8.75318
Primary Keywords
allegory
clouds
figures
odalisque
putti
satyr
self-portrait
Title
The Alliance of Peace and Abundance
Artist
Bartolomeo Coriolano
Physical Description
Two women in long robes stand arm in arm in a landscape. One figure holds an olive branch in her right hand, and her companion cradles a cornucopia against her hip.
Artist Life Dates
(ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1642
Accession Number
1970/1.178
Medium and Support
chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
relevance
rank 8.75318
Primary Keywords
allegory
chiaroscuro woodcuts
olive (wood)
peace
women
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Title
La Justice Protégé les Arts
Artist
Gilles Demarteau
Physical Description
This crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine depicts a grouping of figures arranged in a celestial space and positioned against clouds. A large female figure draped in cloth dominates the upper portion of the composition. She holds a set of scales in her left hand. Two female figures, one clothed, one nude, gather below at this figure’s sandaled feet in the center left of the composition. The clothed figure holds a palette and paintbrushes while the nude figure holds a mallet and a sculpted portrait of a man’s face. At the bottom right three male figures, one of whom wrestles a snake, appear to be attacking the female figure holding the palette. A clothed figure donning a helmet protects the figure holding the scales in the upper right.
Artist Life Dates
1729-1776
Object Creation Date
circa 1763-1767
Accession Number
2012/2.182
Medium and Support
crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on heavy laid paper
relevance
rank 8.75318
Primary Keywords
allegory
justice
painting
scales (weighing devices)
sculpture
Title
The Veil of Darkness
Artist
Anonymous British
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1809
Accession Number
1970/2.115A
Medium and Support
etched copper plate
relevance
rank 8.75318
Primary Keywords
allegory
black
figures
seated
st. george
standing
Title
The Coat of Arms of the Della Chiesa Family
Artist
Anonymous Italian (Genoese)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
mid 16th century
Accession Number
1970/2.106
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with wash on cream paper
relevance
rank 8.66100
Primary Keywords
allegory
churches
coat of arms
family
nudes
seated
winged
Title
The Veil of Darkness
Artist
Anonymous British
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1809
Accession Number
1970/2.115B
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 8.66100
Primary Keywords
allegory
bats
mouse
pots
seated
snakes
standing
torch
Title
The Veil of Darkness
Artist
Anonymous British
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1809
Accession Number
1970/2.115C
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 8.66100
Primary Keywords
allegory
bats
mouse
pots
seated
snakes
standing
torch
Title
Charity (La Charité)
Artist
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Physical Description
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
Artist Life Dates
1825-1905
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1859
Accession Number
1895.96
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
relevance
rank 8.57074
Primary Keywords
allegory
babies
baby
figures
mother
mothers
saint
sons
trees
Title
Allegorical Scene
Artist
Anonymous Flemish or French?
Century
Late 17th or early 18th century
Object Creation Date
1675-1725
Accession Number
1970/2.97
Medium and Support
red chalk
relevance
rank 8.57074
Primary Keywords
allegory
bed
birds
creatures
dragon
interiors
leopards
reclining
standing
Title
L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)
Artist
Charles Joseph Natoire
Physical Description
Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
Artist Life Dates
1700-1777
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1746
Accession Number
1994/1.81
Medium and Support
oil on panel
relevance
rank 8.57074
Primary Keywords
allegory
lyres
music
oil paintings
poetry
portraits
putti
violoncellos
Title
Art and Nature
Artist
Félix Bracquemond
Artist Life Dates
1833-1914
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1865
Accession Number
1969/2.31
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 8.57074
Primary Keywords
allegory
child
dogs
figures
mirror
nudes
seated
statue
throne
Title
Allegory
Artist
Pierre Brébiette
Artist Life Dates
1598 - circa 1650
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1598 - c. 1650
Accession Number
1930.5
Medium and Support
etching on paper
relevance
rank 8.48235
Primary Keywords
allegory
birds
creatures
horses
nudes
putti
trees
weaponry
weapons
winged
Title
Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
Artist
Taddeo Zuccaro
Physical Description
This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.
Artist Life Dates
(1529 - 1566)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1564
Accession Number
1966/1.93
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper
relevance
rank 8.48235
Primary Keywords
allegory
drawing (image-making)
preparatory drawings
rome (inhabited place)
women
Title
Allegorical Representation of 'America'
Artist
Maarten de Vos
Artist Life Dates
1532-1603
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1594-1600
Accession Number
1960/2.24
Medium and Support
pen and black ink with ink wash on cream-colored paper
relevance
rank 8.39575
Primary Keywords
allegory
america
americas
birds
fruit
lions
reptiles and amphibians
rhinoceros
staff
trees
Title
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Physical Description
A seated king, at the left, holds the hand of a swooning woman who is supported by another woman. The supporting woman looks back at the king.
Artist Life Dates
1591-1666
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1639
Accession Number
1978/2.41
Medium and Support
pen, brown ink and brown wash on cream colored laid paper
relevance
rank 8.39575
Primary Keywords
ahasuerus
allegory
bible
esther
king
kings (people)
royalty
seated
standing
turban
Title
Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
Artist
Sebastiano Conca
Physical Description
Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.
Artist Life Dates
1680 - 1764
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1725
Accession Number
1987/1.159
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
relevance
rank 8.31091
Primary Keywords
allegory
books
compasses (drawing instruments)
globes (cartographic spheres)
lyres
oil paintings
putti
Title
Allegory Referring to the Victory over the Turks by King Louis
Artist
Anonymous French
Artist Life Dates
()
Century
Late 17th century
Object Creation Date
1675-1699
Accession Number
1960/1.130
Medium and Support
graphite, red chalk, pen and bistre ink
relevance
rank 8.14627
Primary Keywords
allegory
boat
bound
columns
eagles
france
god
gods
king
males
nudes
seated
victory
winged
Title
Flora
Artist
Richard James Wyatt
Physical Description
White marble sculpture of female figure, partially nude with a cloth draped loosely around her waist and over her left forearm. She holds a cluster of flowers in her left hand, and a single bloom in her right; a basket of flowers located on base to left and slightly behind figure.
Artist Life Dates
1795 - 1850
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1850
Accession Number
1931.17
Medium and Support
marble
relevance
rank 7.85707
Primary Keywords
allegory
flowers
flowers (plants)
mythology (literary genre)
neoclassical
nudes
sculpture
standing
statues
women
Title
Genji espies Murasaki for the first time, from the Wakamurasaki chapter of The Tale of Genji
Artist
Kanô Tsunenobu
Physical Description
Among a gold and bright mineral pigmented landscape, Genji stands below a cherry tree in full bloom and watches Murasaki, who stands in an architectural structure. A distant stream and hilltops indicate the isolated setting.
Artist Life Dates
active 1636-1713
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1670-1680
Accession Number
2002/1.168
Medium and Support
ink, color, and gold pigment and foil on paper
relevance
rank 7.65633
Primary Keywords
allegory
buildings
cherry tree
figures
flowers
gold
gold (metal)
hills
house
landscape
landscapes
literature
lovers
stream
trees
Title
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
Artist
Randolph Rogers
Physical Description
A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.
Artist Life Dates
1825-1892
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1861
Accession Number
1862.1
Medium and Support
Carrara marble
relevance
rank 6.76890
Primary Keywords
allegory
blind
blind (people)
capitals
corinthian (architectural style)
figures (representations)
girl
girls
marble
mythology (literary genre)
neoclassical
nydia
pompeii
pompeii (deserted settlement)
sculpture
staff
staffs (walking sticks)
standing
statues
stone
women
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