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  2. Allegorical sculpture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Allegory - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    Also confidence coefficient. A number indicating the probability that the confidence interval (range) captures the true population mean. For example, a confidence interval with a 95% confidence level has a 95% chance of capturing the population mean. Technically, this means that, if the experiment were repeated many times, 95% of the CIs computed at this level would contain the true population ...

  5. Allegory (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A unit in an allegory is an object U for which the identity is the largest morphism , and such that from every other object, there is an entire relation to U. An allegory with a unit is called unital. Given a tabular allegory A, the category Map(A) is a regular category (it has a terminal object) if and only if A is unital.

  6. Allegorical figure - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Allegorical figure

  7. Statue of Hope - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Four Seasons (sculpture set) - Wikipedia

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    The Four Seasons are an ancient decorative motif. Usually each season is represented as an allegorical figure bearing traditional iconographic symbols. The Romans typically represented the seasons as voluptuous goddesses known as the Horae. This imagery carried over into neoclassical art and later became especially popular as garden sculpture.

  9. Italia turrita - Wikipedia

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    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).