MYTH AS ALLEGORY IN ART

I. DRESSING UP PEOPLE AS GODS

A. Gemma Augustaea c. AD 12

I. DRESSING UP PEOPLE AS GODS

B. Diana d’Anet c. 1550

I. DRESSING UP PEOPLE AS GODS

C. Canova, Paulina Bonaparte Borghese 1807

I. DRESSING UP PEOPLE AS GODS

D. Greenough, George Washington 1833-41

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

A. Rubens, Judgment of Paris

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

B. Titian, Diana & Actaeon

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

C. Boucher, Zeus in the Guise of Diana

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

D. Rubens, Mercury & Argus

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

D. Rubens, Mercury & Argus

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

E. Botticelli, Venus & Mars

II. USING CLASSICAL MYTH TO REPRESENT AN HISTORICAL EVENT OR IDEA

E. di Cosimo, Venus & Mars

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

A. Cancellaria Relief c. AD 90

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

III. MINGLING CHARACTERS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY WITH HISTORICAL PEOPLE

B. Rubens, Marie de Medici cycle c.1622

IV. PURE ALLEGORYA. Botticelli, Pallas Subduing

the Centaur c. 1482

IV. PURE ALLEGORYB. Bronzino, Allegory of Time

& Love c. 1540

IV. PURE ALLEGORYB. Bronzino, Allegory of Time

& Love c. 1540

IV. PURE ALLEGORYB. Bronzino, Allegory of Time

& Love c. 1540