Home›History, Religious and Mythological Paintings›Group›Allegorical WorksGroupAllegorical WorksPaintings whose subject is an allegory or personification rather than a specific narrative event: a personified virtue, vice, season or abstract idea such as Time, Death or Fortune, or a composition built explicitly to be read symbolically rather than as a literal historical, mythological or religious scene. This group excludes a painting that merely carries symbolic meaning within an otherwise literal historical, mythological or religious scene, which belongs under whichever of those groups the scene itself literally depicts.FactsAllegorical WorksSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonNarrative CategoryWell-attestedAllegorical 1Allegorical WorksFilter Results18 entriesCreatorAllDante Gabriel Rossetti (1)Diego Rivera (1)Eugene Delacroix (1)Gustav Klimt (1)Hieronymus Bosch (1)Pablo Picasso (1)Raphael (1)Subject MatterAllAllegorical Works (18)Art FormAllFresco (4)Painting (14)MovementAllNorthern Renaissance (1)Romanticism (1)MediumAllFresco (4)Gouache, gold and ink on paper (1)Mural (1)Oil on canvas (5)Oil paint (1)Tempera on panel (1)Watercolour (1)Year CreatedAll1440 (1)1480 (1)1490 (1)1497 (1)1511 (1)1615 (1)1618 (1)1797 (1)1830 (1)1855 (1)1865 (1)1871 (1)1882 (1)1900 (1)1903 (1)1933 (1)1952 (1)1966 (1)GenreAllPainting (18)PlaceAllCleveland (1)Cuba (1)France (1)Italy (2)Palermo (1)Russia (1)Sweden (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (4)Vatican City (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 18Calumny of ApellesAllegorical WorksCardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael)Allegorical WorksDeath Playing ChessAllegorical WorksDon Juan and the CommendatoreAllegorical WorksDusk (Bouguereau)Allegorical WorksEt in Arcadia ego (Guercino)Allegorical WorksJahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to KingsAllegorical WorksKlimt University of Vienna Ceiling PaintingsAllegorical WorksLa Vie (painting)Allegorical WorksLiberty Leading the PeopleAllegorical WorksMan at the CrossroadsAllegorical WorksPaolo and Francesca da RiminiAllegorical WorksThe Apotheosis of WarAllegorical WorksThe Apotheosis of WashingtonAllegorical WorksThe Garden of Earthly DelightsAllegorical WorksThe Sources of Music and The Triumph of MusicAllegorical WorksThe Triumph of Death (Palermo)Allegorical WorksUnited Nations Security Council muralAllegorical WorksSources1. Tate glossary: Allegorytier 2TateAllegory glossary entry, definition sentenceQuote, Allegory glossary entry, definition sentencewhen the subject of the artwork, or the various elements that form the composition, is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning such as life, death, love, virtue, justice etc.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.