Allegory & Symbol

The Voyage of Life – Manhood (1842)

Thomas Cole (American, 1801-1848)

Landscape

Lucifer (Natalie Clifford Barney) (1902)

Alice Pike Barney (American, 1857–1931)

Figurative

Circe

Alice Pike Barney (American, 1857–1931)

Mythology

Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney) (1892)

Alice Pike Barney (American, 1857–1931)

Mythology

Study for Amfortas Released by Galahad, in The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail (ca. 1893–1901)

Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852 - 1911)

Mythology

Within the Tent of Brutus; Enter the Ghost of Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III (1905)

Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852 - 1911)

Figurative

Wonderland

Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940)

Figurative

Head of Medusa (1878)

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)

Mythology

The Cumaean Sibyl (1876)

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)

Mythology

Young Marsyas (Marsyas Enchanting The Hares) (1878)

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)

Mythology

Samson (1886)

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)

Religion

Fisherman And Mermaid (1888-1889)

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)

Mythology

An allegory of the sense of sight

Pseudo Caroselli (Italian, 17th century)

Mythology

Cosmic Allegory (Around 1660)

Abraham Hondius (Dutch, 1625-1695)

Mythology

Plutus ; Allegorische voorstelling van de verzorging van leprozen en onnozelen (1665 – 1685)

Gerard de Lairesse (Flemish, 1641-1711)

Mythology

Perseus and Andromeda. Allegory of the liberation of the Netherlands by Prince Frederik Hendrik (1642)

Pieter Symonsz Potter (Dutch, 1597–1652)

Mythology

Allegory of the Stadtholdership of Prince Frederick Henry (1642)

Adriaen Pietersz. Van De Venne (Dutch, 1589-1662)

Mythology

Allegory of Satan (Lord of the World) (1900)

Ludwik Stasiak (Polish, 1858-1924)

Religion

Allegory of Fortune (ca. 1730)

Balthazar Nebot (English, 1700-1786)

Mythology

Apollo, sending out the plague arrows (around 1920)

Alexander Rothaug (Austrian, 1870 - 1946)

Mythology