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Invention

Artist: Angelica Kauffman RA (Swiss, 1741-1807)

Date: ca. 1778-1780

Medium: Oil on canvas

Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Description

This painting depicts Invention and is one of the four 'Elements of Art' that Kauffman was commissioned to paint for the ceilings of the Royal Academy's new Council Chamber in Somerset House which opened in 1780. The Elements include Invention, Design, Composition and Colouring.

Composition

Artist: Angelica Kauffman RA (Swiss, 1741-1807)

Date: ca. 1778-1780

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Description

This painting representing Composition is part of a set of the four 'Elements of Art' commissioned from Kauffman by the Royal Academy to decorate the ceiling of the Royal Academy's new Council Chamber in Somerset House which opened in 1780. The Elements comprise the four fundamental stages of creating an artwork: Invention, Design, Composition and Coloring.

Vigilance

Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824-1898)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

This is a version of La Vigilance (Vigilance) which was one of four decorative panels commissioned by the writer and sculptor Claude Vignon, alias Noémie Cadiot, for her house at 148 rue de la Tour in Paris. The mural scheme featured four allegorical figures intended to represent the principal elements of artistic creation: Vigilance, Meditation, History and Fantasy. The flame, which Vigilance holds aloft against a new dawn, symbolizes the moment of artistic inspiration.

Allegory of Africa (from a Series of "The Four Parts of the World")

Artist: Jan Boeckhorst (German, 1604–1668)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vienna, Austria

Allegory of the Founding of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture

Artist: Nicolas Loir (French, 1624-1679)

Date: 1666

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Description

Also known as the progress of the drawing arts in France under the reign of Louis XIV or Minerva and the arts. Reception piece at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, October 2, 1666.

Allegory of the Arts

Artist: Francesco de Mura (Italian, 1696-1782)

Date: ca. 1750-1775

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Allegory of the Month of January with the Triumph of Janus

Artist: Otto van Veen (Flemish, 1556-1629), Joos de Momper (Flemish, c. 1564-1635)

Date: Late 16th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Artist: Master of the Dinteville Allegory (Netherlandish or French, active mid-16th century)

Date: 1537

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

In this portrait, the five aristocratic Dinteville brothers act out a scene from the Hebrew Bible to represent an episode from their own family history. In 1538 Gaucher de Dinteville, the bearded man in blue at the rear of the group on the right, was accused of attempted sodomy. As a result, he and his brothers lost their court offices and spent several years in exile before returning to royal favor. Here, two of them - identified by the inscriptions on the hems of their robes - appear in the guises of Aaron and Moses, pleading with the Egyptian pharaoh.

An Allegory in Praise of Napoleon. Clio Shows the Nations the Memorable Events of his Reign

Artist: Alexandre Véron-Bellecourt (French, 1773-1849)

Date: ca. 1800-1825

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Victory

Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767-1824)

Date: ca. 1813-1814

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Allegory of Galicia

Artist: Luis Paret y Alcázar (Spanish, 1746-1799)

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

This work was part of a series of ten allegories of Spain's principal territories - including one of the Americas - painted by Paret for the interior decoration of the House of the Deputation of the Five Major Guilds, located on Atocha Street in Madrid, in what is now Jacinto Benavente Square.