Editing Allegory (section)

===Art===
Some elaborate and successful specimens of allegory are to be found in the following works, arranged in approximate chronological order:
*[[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]] &ndash; ''[[The Allegory of Good and Bad Government|Allegoria del Buono e Cattivo Governo e loro Effetti in Città e Campagna]]'' ({{Circa|1338–1339}})
*[[Sandro Botticelli]] &ndash; ''[[Primavera (Botticelli)|Primavera]]'' ({{Circa|1482}})
*[[Albrecht Dürer]] &ndash; ''[[Melencolia I]]'' (1514)
*[[Bronzino]] &ndash; ''[[Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time]]'' ({{Circa|1545}})
*[[English art|The English School's]] &ndash; ''"Allegory of Queen Elizabeth"'' ({{Circa|1610}})
*[[Artemisia Gentileschi]] &ndash; ''[[Allegory of Inclination]]'' ({{Circa|1620}}), ''An Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown'' (1638); ''[[Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (Artemisia Gentileschi)|Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting]]'' ({{Circa|1638–39}})
* The ''[[Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist]]'' by [[Bartholomeus Strobel]] is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the [[Thirty Years' War]], with portraits of many leading political and military figures.
*[[Jan Vermeer]] &ndash; ''[[The Art of Painting|Allegory of Painting]]'' ({{Circa|1666}})
*Fernand Le Quesne – ''[[c:File:Fernand_Le_Quesne_-_Allégorie_de_la_publicité.jpg|Allégorie de la publicité]]''
*[[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] &ndash; ''[[Truth Coming Out of Her Well]]'' (1896)
*[[Graydon Parrish]] &ndash; ''[[The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy]]'' (2006)
*Many statues of [[Lady Justice]]: "Such visual representations have raised the question why so many allegories in the history of art, pertaining occupations once reserved for men only, are of female sex."<ref>[[Cäcilia Rentmeister]]: The Muses, Banned From Their Occupations: Why Are There So Many Allegories Female? [http://www.cillie-rentmeister.de/themen/english/ English summary from Kvinnovetenskaplig Tidskrift, Nr.4. 1981, Lund, Sweden as PDF. Retrieved 10.July 2011] Original Version in German: ''Berufsverbot für die Musen. Warum sind so viele Allegorien weiblich?'' In: Ästhetik und Kommunikation, Nr. 25/1976, S. 92–112. Langfassung in: Frauen und Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur Berliner Sommeruniversität für Frauen, Juli 1976, Berlin 1977, S.258–297. With illustrations. [http://www.cillie-rentmeister.de/berufsverbot-fuer-die-musen/ Full Texts Online: Cäcilia (Cillie) Rentmeister: publications]</ref>
*[[Damien Hirst]] [[Verity (sculpture)|''Verity'']] (2012)