dancing fairy

1710s Justus Engelhardt Kuhn - Portrat der Eleonor Darnhall

Hand-tinted time lapse footage of roses, c.1925, filmed by Arthur Edward Pillsbury.

Mottisfont Abbey Rose Gardens, Hampshire, UK  by ukgardenphotos (Flickr).

The Allegory of Painting has been associated with the Allegory of Music. The low viewpoints and the broad handling of the brushwork suggest that they were intended as overdoors, to be placed high in a decorative scheme where close examination would not have been possible. Both are personified as beautiful young women, surrounded by attributes appropriate to their arts and are doted by winged putti.

Image and text courtesy The Morgan Library and Museum.

Claude Monet, 1897