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Allegory of Youth Crossing between Fame and Folly

Artist: Follower of Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, c. 1494–1533)

Date: c. 1550

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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Fortuna

Artist: Henri Gascars (French, c. 1635-1701)

Date: 1670’s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

This painting depicts the figure of Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fortune, and the personification of luck. She is holding a cornucopia, one of her traditional attributes, and, in front of a palatial background, holds a jeweled crown in her hand. The picture almost certainly dates from Gascar’s time in England in the 1670s.

Allegory of the Fine Arts or Minerva Teaching Sculpture to the Rhodians

Artist: René-Antoine Houasse (French, c. 1645-1710)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

An Allegory of the Riches of the Earth

Artist: Gerard Hoet (Dutch, 1648-1733)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

Allegory of the Alliance of France and Bavaria through the Marriage of the Grand Dauphin

Artist: Arnould of Vuez (French, 1644-1720)

Date: 1681

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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Charity

Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)

Date: 1627-1628

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul outlines the importance of faith, hope and charity, naming charity as the greatest of the three. At the time this picture was painted, charity meant combining the love of God with love of one’s neighbor.

Mythological Allegory

Artist: Luteri Giovanni called Dosso Dossi (Italian, c. 1487-1542)

Date: c, 1529

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Borguese Gallery, Rome, Italy

Allegory of the Transfer of the Imperial Gallery to the Belvedere

Artist: Vinzenz Fischer (Austrian, 1729-1810)

Date: 1781

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Description

The painting commemorates the historic relocation of the Habsburg imperial art collection to the Upper Belvedere palace in Vienna, marking a major step toward creating a public museum.

Time Revealing Truth

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787)

Date: ca. 1740-1745

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, United States

Faith, Hope and Charity

Artist: Studio of Francesco Albani (Italian, 1578-1660)

Date: 1578-1660

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Inspiration

Artist: Aby Alston (English, 1866-1948)

Date: 1899

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Divine Vengeance and Justice Pursuing Crime

Artist: After Pierre-Paul Prud (French, 1758-1823)

Date: After 1808

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, United States

Allegory of Reason (Mathematics and Geometry)

Artist: Attributed to Charles Lucy (English, 1692 - after 1768)

Date: 1760

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Allegory of the Birth of the Dauphin, October 22, 1781

Artist: Francois Guillaume Ménageot (French, 1744-1816)

Date: 1783

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Allegory of the Creation

Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, 1540/1541 - 1595/1596)

Date: c. 1585

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

Description

The subject is a kind of hymn to creation, the source for which has been identified as the Psalms. The painting depicts creation, desired by God, who is portrayed as an old man with a beard, holding a book inscribed with the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, the alpha and the omega, in a reference to Eternity, the ‘beginning’ and ‘end’ of all things.

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Allegory of the Old Testament

Artist: José Gutiérrez de la Vega y Bocanegra (Spanish, 1791-1865)

Date: c. 1844

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

A female figure holds the book of the Seven Seals and the emblem of the Holy Spirit.

Tithonus and the Dawn (The Morning Star)

Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767-1824)

Date: 1814

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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