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#allegory — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Public Domain Image Archive @[email protected] ·

    Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's *China Illustrata* (1667) by Athanasius Kircher, from China Illustrata
    .

    Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons

    pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92

    #buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory #shields #art #publicdomain

    #buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory #shields
  2. Public Domain Image Archive @[email protected] ·

    The Seven Stages of the Office Seeker (1852) by Edward Williams Clay.

    Source: Library of Congress

    pdimagearchive.org/images/3995

    #lebenstreppe #caricatures #aristotle #cartoons #stufenalter #allegory #shakespeare #art #publicdomain

    #lebenstreppe #caricatures #aristotle #cartoons #stufenalter #allegory
  3. C. L. Nichols @[email protected] ·

    specstories.substack.com/p/fig

    #FiguresOfSpeech

    These #RhetoricalDevices add color and vividness to written or spoken words, making them more engaging and memorable.
    #Similes #Metaphors #Personification #Hyperbole #Onomatopoeia #Alliteration #Symbolism #Irony #Oxymoron #Allegory

    #speculativeencounters #writingcommunity #substack #writersofinstagram #stories #plotting #storytelling #writingcommunity

    #figuresofspeech #rhetoricaldevices #similes #metaphors #personification #hyperbole
  4. Tamsin Lewis @[email protected] ·

    #Allegorical figures of #plenty: #Flora,# Ceres, #Ops (abundance) and #Pales (goddess of shepherds, here described as rustica cum caseo - with cheese!) All playing #cornetti

    To the right, the #elemental figures of Ignis (fire) and Aer (air) - the other two #elements are on the following page.

    From the #16thCentury #pageantbook showing the 8 #pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
    Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.

    #earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern @earlymodern #cheese #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #cornet #cornetto #cornett #allegory #mythology #latin

    #allegorical #plenty #flora #ops #pales #cornetti
  5. Tamsin Lewis @[email protected] ·

    Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
    (Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
    By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.

    #otd #onthisdayinhistory #onthisdayinarthistory #arcimboldo #allegory #music #musica #tournament #rudolfii #renaissance #mannerist #costume #16thcentury #16thcenturycostume #16thcenturyfashion #allegorical #violadabraccio #violin #fiddle #earlymusic #renaissancemusic #sixteenthcentury #histodon #histodons #earlymodern @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodons @histodon

    #onthisday #otd #onthisdayinhistory #onthisdayinarthistory #arcimboldo #allegory