genre: allegory / collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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127 artworks found

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instance of: painting (123) | mural (3) | tondo (1) | fresco (1)

commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (5) | Ferdinand Gonzaga (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (3) | Louvre Museum (2) | Gustave Doré (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Cardinal Richelieu (1) | Cardinal Mazarin (1) | Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1) | Thomas Charles Hope (1) | Tanneguy Duchâtel (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Armand de Madaillan (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1) | Juliette Courbet (1)

movement: neoclassicism (2) | academic art (2) | Romanticism (1) | classicism (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | School of Fontainebleau (1) | Venetian school (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | High Renaissance (1)

based on: Siege of La Rochelle (1) | Vénus Anadyomène (1) | Magdalene in Meditation (1)

artist: Peter Paul Rubens (16) | Charles Meynier (5) | Giuseppe Arcimboldo (4) | Simon Vouet (4) | François-Édouard Picot (3) | Jean-Honoré Fragonard (3) | Charles Le Brun (3) | Francesco Albani (3) | Gregorio Guglielmi (3) | Antonio da Correggio (2) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (2) | Nicolas Poussin (2) | Lorenzo Costa (2) | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (2) | Nicolas Gosse (2) | Auguste Couder (2) | François Joseph Heim (2) | Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (2)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (5) | The Four Seasons (4)

depicts: woman (52) | putto (24) | cloud (19) | nudity (17) | Marie de' Medici (15) | France (13) | man (13) | Minerva (13) | Cupid (9) | laurel wreath (9) | flower (8) | Mercury (8) | Jupiter (8) | book (7) | Apollo (7) | temple (7) | broad-leaved tree (7) | crown (7)

material used: oil paint (118) | canvas (98) | wood (10) | tempera (4) | poplar wood (2) | fresco (2) | copper (1) | wax paint (1)

location: Room 801 (15) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (10) | Louvre Palace (8) | Galerie d'Apollon (6) | Room 712 (5) | Room 716 (5) | Room 826 (5) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Room 710 (4) | Percier et Fontaine room (4) | Room 722 (4) | Room 724 (4) | Room 800 (4) | Louvre Museum (3) | Room 702 (3) | Room 929 (3) | Room 823 (3) | Mantua (2)

part of: The Four Seasons (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (3) | médaillons de la salle Percier et Fontaine au palais du Louvre (2) | An Allegory of Intemperance (1) | The Pilgrimage of Life Triptych (1)

country of origin: Italy (5) | France (4)

exhibition history: Salon of 1833 (8) | Salon of 1827 (6) | Salon of 1831 (2) | Salon of 1822 (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1) | Nashville (1) | Bourg-en-Bresse (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1900 (1) | La Galerie du temps (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Salon of 1814 (1) | Salon of 1843 (1)

main subject: charity (1)

location of final assembly: Mantua (3)

fabrication method: fresco painting (1) | encaustic painting (1)

The Reign of Comus

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1511)
Anteros Arion Bacchus hill Cupid broad-leaved tree string instrument İznik Janus lyre Mercury plain Venus

Peace

painting
by Jacques Dumont le Romain (1749)
olive branch crown woman laurel wreath

Double wreath surrounding a medaillion with the triumph of love

painting
by Domenichino (1626s)
pigeon Cupid flower putto

Louis XIII

painting
by Simon Vouet (18th century)
Louis XIII of France woman personification personification drapery laurel wreath standing body armor Order of the Holy Spirit kneeling man

Winter

painting
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1575)
tree mouth mushroom head hair lemon sword flower garland Hedera winter man root trunk

The Inspiration of the Poet

painting
by Nicolas Poussin (1629)
putto laurel wreath lyre Iliad Odyssey Aeneid Mount Parnassus tree quill Virgil Calliope sky poet Apollo Citharoedus woman

La musique - Portrait de M. de la Bretèche

painting
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1769)
allegory

Sea Harbor, Fog Effect

painting
by Claude Lorrain (1646)
light source contre-jour port fortification portico sailing ship mist Ascanius dog Aeneas Achates tower column group of humans

Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece

painting
by François-Édouard Picot (1827)
Egypt Greece cloud putto meeting

Allegory of Virtues

painting
by Antonio da Correggio (1531)
angel astrology astronomy compass child lion lyre Minerva None sphere virtue

[no title]

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
Marie de' Medici Mercury treaty

Peace bringing back Prosperity

painting
by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1780)
woman

Public Felicity Triumphant over Dangers

painting
by Orazio Gentileschi (1623s)
balustrade Caduceus sky cornucopia woman

Wealth

painting
by Simon Vouet (1640s)
wealth woman bijou laurel wreath book goldsmithing putto

Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis

painting
by Auguste Couder (1819)
shield combat deity water spear paganism Scamander

Allegory of Isabella d'Este's Coronation

painting
by Lorenzo Costa (1505)
Anteros Apollo bow ox Cadmus courtyard crown watercourse cuirass Diana animal husbandry broad-leaved tree arrow string instrument lyre bird poetry sailing ship

A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts

fresco
by Sandro Botticelli (1483s)
woman scorpion symbol

Ship of Fools

painting
by Hieronymus Bosch (1500s)
ship of fools

Terrestrial Venus with Eros and Celestial Venus with Anteros and Two Cupids

painting
by Il Sodoma (1525)
Anteros bow shield quiver Cupid child woman broad-leaved tree Grotesque art nudity vegetation Venus

L'Été

mural
by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau (1775)
angel Ceres summer woman cloud Phaethon

The Triumph of Religion

painting
by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1780s)
God Virgin Mary angel

La Paix

mural
by Théodore Chassériau (1846s)
maternal bond woman tillage grain harvest baby

The Apotheosis of Henri IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Médicis

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
apotheosis Henry IV of France Marie de' Medici widow proclamation Minerva Jupiter eagle victory War trophy death dog snake mourning throne Saturn scythe Hercules France triumphal arch Bellona Mercury

Les Nymphes de Parthénope, emportant loin de leurs rivages les Pénates, images de leurs dieux, sont conduites par la déesse des beaux-arts sur les bords de la Seine

painting
by Charles Meynier (1827)
shield Potamoi facade woman France genius Minerva museum Naples Seine symbol

La France victorieuse à Bouvines

painting
by Merry-Joseph Blondel (1828)
crown flag France Arms industry cloud nudity putto None trumpet

Hercules between Vice and Virtue

painting
by Gerard de Lairesse (17th century)
woman broad-leaved tree Heracles virtue vice

Charity

painting
by Jacques Blanchard (1635s)
breastfeeding charity woman baby

The Destiny of Marie de' Medici

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1622)
spinning Jupiter Marie de' Medici cloud truth

The Cupids Disarmed

painting
by Francesco Albani (1621s)
love bow quiver Diana woman putto Earth

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

painting
by Sebastiano Ricci (1717s)
crown scythe woman France genius spear book Spotting scope Minerva prudence sculpture in the round Saturn sphere symbol virtue

[no title]

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
France justice Marie de' Medici navigation religion

Arts Pay Hommage to Concord

painting
by Nicolas Gosse (1831)
art

Charon Ferrying the Shades

painting
by Pierre Subleyras (1744)
Charon death

The Sculptor's Studio

painting
by Adriaen van der Werff (1685s)
studio sculptor pupil teaching art of sculpture Borghese Gladiator hat

The Dance

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1856)
cloud dance woman day night drapery partner dance sitting tambourine barefoot toplessness clothing blond wreath black hair headband brown hair breast back Huequitos para Andrea smile sky chiton malleolus

Allégorie de la Justice

painting
by Bartholomeus Spranger (1592)
sword woman justice bed nudity

[no title]

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1623s)
weapon body armor column France Marie de' Medici soldier night torch

Allegory of Arts

painting
by Francesco de Mura (1747s)
astronomy compass woman book partitur pyramid sculpture in the round sitting violin

Vesuvius receives from Jupiter the fire that must consume Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabies

painting
by François Joseph Heim (1826)
Aeolus Jupiter Minerva cloud Mount Vesuvius

L'Air : L'optique

painting
by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1621)
tree swan Spotting scope bird pelican Phoenicopteriformes putto sphere

Spring

painting
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1573)
flower garland man spring

Céphale et l'Aurore

painting
by François Boucher (1764)
dog baby cloud putto rose sleep

France, under the guise of Minerva, Protecting the Arts

painting
by Charles Meynier (1819)
mourning Minerva protection helmet arts woman palette art of sculpture architecture cornucopia torch art of painting cloud

Man formed by Prometheus and animated by Minerva

painting
by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1802)
man Minerva cloud Prometheus

La Victoire

painting
by Simon Vouet (17th century)
swagger stick woman laurel wreath nudity