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Sometimes the meaning of an allegory can be lost, even if art historians suspect that the artwork is an allegory of some kind. [21] Allegory has an ability to freeze the temporality of a story, while infusing it with a spiritual context. Medieval thinking accepted allegory as having a reality underlying any rhetorical or fictional uses. The ...
Allegorical sculpture are sculptures of personifications of abstract ideas, as in allegory. [1] Common in the western world , for example, are statues of Lady Justice representing justice , traditionally holding scales and a sword , and the statues of Prudence , representing Truth by holding a mirror and squeezing a serpent.
The Statue of Hope is an allegorical figure that is typically a private memorial or monumental sculpture displayed in a graveyard or cemetery, often a Rural cemetery. Hope is one of the Seven Virtues of the Christian religion.
Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her attributes are scales , a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia .
Statue of Italia turrita e stellata in Naples. Italia turrita (pronounced [iˈtaːlja turˈriːta]; lit. ' Turreted Italy ') is the national personification or allegory of Italy, in the appearance of a young woman with her head surrounded by a mural crown completed by towers (hence turrita or "with towers" in Italian).
The Crown of Immortality, held by the allegorical figure Eterna (Eternity) on the Swedish House of Knights fresco by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. The Crown of Immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as a laurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars (often a crown, tiara, halo or aureola).
A feminine allegory was also a manner to symbolise the breaking with the old monarchy headed by kings and promote modern republican ideology. Even before the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France was embodied in masculine figures, as depicted in certain ceilings of Palace of Versailles .
An Allegory of Folly (early 16th century) by Quentin Matsys A medieval allegory of Folly, painted by Giotto. Folly (Latin: Moria) was a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance. The depiction is generally of a young man, often similar in appearance to a jester or the tarot card, The ...