Allegorical sculpture
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Allegorical sculpture are sculptures of
sword, and the statues of Prudence, representing Truth by holding a mirror and squeezing a serpent.[2]
This approach of using the human form and its posture, gesture, clothing and props to wordlessly convey
themes
.
It may be seen in time are also represented. The use of allegorical sculpture was fully developed under the École des Beaux-Arts. It is sometimes associated with Victorian
art, and is commonly found in works dating from around 1900.
Notable allegorical sculptures
- The Four cardinal virtues, by monument to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in Bishop's Hatfield Church in the English county of Hertfordshire, before 1641.
- Pinto's Allegories of Justice and Truth by architect Giuseppe Bonici and mason Giovanni Puglisi, 1758.[3][4]
- The figures of the four continents and four arts and sciences surrounding the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, 1872.
- The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), 1886.
- Passing of the Buffalo by Cyrus Dallin in Muncie, Indiana, 1929.
- Figures of War and Peace located at the Millennium Monument at Heroes' Square Hősök tere, Budapest, Hungary, ca. 1900
- In Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, New York had an extensive scheme of allegorical sculpture programmed by Karl Bitter.
- Statue of Justice on the Old Bailey in London ca. 1902
- Four statues, Industry, Science, Agriculture, and Literature, by Indianapolis, Indiana, 1905.
- The allegorical group on top of Jules-Felix Coutan in 1912, represents the Roman gods, Hercules (physical energy), Mercury (commerce[5]) and Minerva(wisdom), and collectively represents 'Transportation'.
- The Cyrus Dallin, 1924.
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- ^ Lederer, Joseph, photographs by Arley Bondarin, ‘’All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York City’’, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975 p. 86