allegory (artistic device)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Method of expressing complex or abstract ideas in the literary or visual arts under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive resemblance. An allegory is principally constructed from personifications and symbols. In art, allegories include combinations of personifications and/or symbols, which, on the basis of a conventionally agreed relation between concept and representation, refer to an idea outside the work of art. The properties and circumstances attributed to the apparent subject of the allegory really refer to another subject in an extended or continued metaphor. Allegories may have meaning on two or more levels that the viewer or reader can understand only through an interpretive process.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rembrandt: Master Printmaker, May 25-July 8, 1951
Sub-Series
Abstract
From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of about 40 prints by Dutch Old Master artist Rembrandt van Rijn. The exhibition records span four folders plus a bulletin.
Dates:
May 25-July 8, 1951
The Saints and Their Attributes, November 20-December 29, 1952
Sub-Series
Abstract
From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of about 60 religious engravings, etchings, and woodcuts by Old Master printmakers of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The exhibition records span five folders.
Dates:
November 20-December 29, 1952