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A work made against this background is the Allegory of war (Lempertz 16 November 2013, Cologne Lot 1243). The work is full of symbols of war and strife such as weapons, fighting animals, zodiac symbols of bad luck in the heavens, the furies , a burning city, the god of war and the battling troops in the background which all evoke the theme of ...
Air (painting) Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power; The Allegory of Faith; Allegory of Fortune; Allegory of Painting and Sculpture; Allegory of the Dutch Defeat of the Spanish Fleet in Gibraltar; Allegory of the Earth; Allegory of the Vanities of the World; Allegory of Vanity and Repentance; Allegory of Wealth; Apollo and Diana ...
Napoleon's Tomb (French title: L'Apothéose de Napoléon) is an 1821 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2] An allegory, it depicts the apotheosis of the former emperor of France Napoleon following his death in exile on the island of Saint Helena.
Rubens painted the allegorical female figures, accompanied by a putto or a winged Cupid in Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Touch, and by a satyr in Taste.Brueghel created the sumptuous settings, which evoke the splendour of the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands, to which the two artists were attached. [1]
Consequences of War, also known as Horror of war, [1] was executed between 1638 and 1639 by Peter Paul Rubens in oil paint on canvas. It was painted for Ferdinando II de' Medici . Although commissioned by an Italian, art historians characterize both the work and the artist as Flemish Baroque .
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In his collaborations on garland paintings Francken would paint the central figure or representation while the still life painter would create the garland. Together with Andries Daniels, Frans Francken further developed the genre of garland paintings, creating many special forms, among them garlands around medallions with the decades of the rosary.
The painting is an allegory of the Dutch victory against the Spaniards during the battle of Gibraltar, that took place on 25 April 1607 in the context of the Eighty Years' War. The painting shows in the foreground a Dutch and a Spanish struggling between them by a wooden bar, while an English and a Venetian observe them.