Allegory: national gallery pocket guide (national gallery london publications)

When We Say That ‘love Is Blind’ Or ‘time Flies’ – Making Disembodied Ideas Sound Like Living Beings – We Are Using The Language Of Allegory, And Incidentally Bringing Abstract Notions Within The Scope Of The Visual Arts. Painters In The Past, And Commercial Artists In Our Own Day, Have Relied On Allegory To Create ‘message Pictures’. Once Thought To Rival Literary Works Or Political Oratory In Influence And Prestige, Such Paintings, With Their References To Ancient Myth, The Bible Or Medieval Astrology, All Too Often Puzzle Modern Viewers. This Pocket Guide Illustrates And Explains The Main Types Of Visual Allegory In Western Art, And The Contexts In Which They Were Originally Created And Viewed, Through Some Of The Most Beautiful And Intriguing Pictures In The National Gallery, London.–jacket. Pagan Gods — Allegory For The Public Good — Allegory To Flatter Princes And Courtiers — Allegory And Dynastic Pride — Allegory And Astrology — Virtues And Vices — Theological Virtues: Charity — Cardinal Virtues: Justice — Prudence — Fortitude — Cardinal Virtues And Truth — Chastity — Vices — Sloth — Eros And Chastity: The Triumphs — Combat Of Eros And Chastity — Triumph Of Chastity Over Eros — Liberal Arts — Rhetoric And Music — Grammar — Five Senses — Time — Seasons And The Ages Of Humankind — Ages Of Humankind And The Times Of Day. Erika Langmuir. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 64).