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Representation of the Inner State of a Man, Who Is a Servant of Sin, and Suffers the Devil to Reign Within Him. (1851) by Johannes Gossner, from The Heart of Man: Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan: Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures, Calculated to Awaken and Promote a Christian Disposition.

Source: New York Public Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ead2fc1f-c68e-4eaf-985e-ed2f638e67c1

#animals #devils #angels #symbolism #emblems #allegory #christianity #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/61bd4bb7-c012-4385-bf9f-2b4cf8acd1e8

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #allegory #pageantry #parties #horses #flowers #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

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

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3995a335-4eea-4a66-885b-a8789bd62dd2

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

https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-diaries-of-evgeny-schwartz-as.html The Diaries of Evgeny Schwartz as a #Spiritual Lesson for 2026: The #Individual and the #State #spirituality #diaries , #Russian , #soviet , #literature, #internalémigré , #allegory, #fairytale, #testimony

Illustration by Théodore Marcile, from Civitas veri sive morvm (1609).

Source: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a04719fa-8963-4bae-a95c-24cc62228987

#classical #aristotle #dystopia #nature #ethics #emblems #allegory #landscapes #mythology #morals #utopias #architecture #truth #art #publicdomain

Object: Ira/ Pigritia (Wrath and Sloth) Series: The Deadly Sins Date: 1590-1645 Print made by Jakob von der Heyden #allegory #monstrous #grotesque

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #fables #allegory #fantasy #fableretelling #moraltale #books #graphicnovels
Cinder House - Freya Marske
Fables (graphic novel series) - Bill Willmingham
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifuenko
The God and the Guhimo - Sophie Kim

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #fables #allegory #fantasy #fableretelling #moraltale #books #graphicnovels
Cinder House - Freya Marske
Fables (graphic novel series) - Bill Willmingham
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifuenko
The God and the Guhimo - Sophie Kim

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #fables #allegory #fantasy #fableretelling #moraltale #books #graphicnovels
Cinder House - Freya Marske
Fables (graphic novel series) - Bill Willmingham
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifuenko
The God and the Guhimo - Sophie Kim

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #fables #allegory #fantasy #fableretelling #moraltale #books #graphicnovels
Cinder House - Freya Marske
Fables (graphic novel series) - Bill Willmingham
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifuenko
The God and the Guhimo - Sophie Kim

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #fables #allegory #fantasy #fableretelling #moraltale #books #graphicnovels
Cinder House - Freya Marske
Fables (graphic novel series) - Bill Willmingham
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifuenko
The God and the Guhimo - Sophie Kim

“The Foot ball
The 49ers Tean has
the excitement
of the bear,
the velocity of the deer
and strenght of—
the buffalo.”

Source: Rear wall of Taquería Vallarta on 24th Street.

#mural #document #football #allegory #sanfrancisco #california

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4e09a08c-4a4f-48f4-b588-33dcff07aca3

#watercolours #royalty #botanical-art #processions #games #allegory #pageantry #parties #flowers #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

The Hunters Enter the Woods (1495–1505), from The Unicorn Tapestries.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/196a07ce-74cb-4b3a-a00a-e0ec4a48b11a

#hunting #dogs #forests #medieval #allegory #unicorns #plants #tapestries #art #publicdomain

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-MusaeumHermeticum/pages/345-putrefactio-dragon/

A knight, on foot, fighting a dragon. The image was captioned Putrefactio, or, rot, and seems to be an allegory of the knight fighting rot. It could be an early ad for bleach, but no, it’s more likely the inner journey of purification we must go through, in this occult book on the Philosopher’s Stone.

#occult #dragon #knight #battle #vintageArt #alchemy #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #allegory

Orang Ikan wants to be The Defiant Ones with a monster during WWII, and that’s exactly the problem. When history is already monstrous, allegory turns into evasion. Instant camaraderie, frictionless enemies, and a Godzilla-lite distraction flatten real atrocities into set dressing.
#OrangIkan #MonsterMovie #WWII #FilmCriticism #Allegory #HistoricalCinema #CreatureFeature #WarFilms #BMovie #Cinema
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/the-architecture-of-historical-absence-a-cinematic-and-historiographical-analysis-of-orang-ikan/

Orang Ikan wants to be The Defiant Ones with a monster during WWII, and that’s exactly the problem. When history is already monstrous, allegory turns into evasion. Instant camaraderie, frictionless enemies, and a Godzilla-lite distraction flatten real atrocities into set dressing.
#OrangIkan #MonsterMovie #WWII #FilmCriticism #Allegory #HistoricalCinema #CreatureFeature #WarFilms #BMovie #Cinema
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/the-architecture-of-historical-absence-a-cinematic-and-historiographical-analysis-of-orang-ikan/

Uncle Sam's Dream of Conquest and Carnage - Caused by Reading the Jingo Newspapers (1895) by Udo Keppler, from Puck, v. 38, no. 975.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58628c60-e36a-4b47-b8ca-42c590706e52

#satire #caricatures #newspapers #cartoons #allegory #politics #war #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/015f1f04-8c84-45a0-a845-4f777cd756c6

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #severed-heads #botanical-art #giants #allegory #flowers #beheading #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3570c3bc-f144-4539-8d1a-dfb3802dfa3d

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #allegory #pageantry #parties #horses #flowers #knights #plants #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/abf6c4e9-658b-45ed-b13f-edc82e9a2858

#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #allegory #pageantry #parties #horses #flowers #knights #chariots #plants #art #publicdomain

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

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

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92de90-0624-4114-b81a-c113fde74383

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

Today's pick: An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments (c. 1532 - 1535) - Hans Holbein the Younger. #art #Holbein #Allegory

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/543.html

In the next issue of Schmalk magazine: Michaelina Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus (1650) meets modern politics.

Our author Giorgio Vasari writes an allegorical poem connecting Bacchus—the god of intoxication and collective frenzy—to the spectacle of 2025’s world stage.

From divine ecstasy to political delirium, the procession continues.

#Schmalk #MichaelinaWautier #Bacchus #ArtHistory #Culture #Politics #Allegory #Philosophy #CulturalCritique #Postmodernism #VisualCulture

16x20 UV Acrylic work in progress.........

Feed an artist:
Venmo @Anthillant

Anthillant.threadless.com

Artbyanthillant.bsky.social

IG: instagram.com/Artbyanthillant

#resist #protest #beloud #nolouder #notexplicit #spoonieart #art #blacklightart #womensrights #civilrights #allpowertoallpeople #martyred #libertywilljudgeyou #judgment #revelations #allegory #illustration #posca

16x20 UV Acrylic work in progress.........

Feed an artist:
Venmo @Anthillant

Anthillant.threadless.com

Artbyanthillant.bsky.social

IG: instagram.com/Artbyanthillant

#resist #protest #beloud #nolouder #notexplicit #spoonieart #art #blacklightart #womensrights #civilrights #allpowertoallpeople #martyred #libertywilljudgeyou #judgment #revelations #allegory #illustration #posca

16x20 UV Acrylic work in progress.........

Feed an artist:
Venmo @Anthillant

Anthillant.threadless.com

Artbyanthillant.bsky.social

IG: instagram.com/Artbyanthillant

#resist #protest #beloud #nolouder #notexplicit #spoonieart #art #blacklightart #womensrights #civilrights #allpowertoallpeople #martyred #libertywilljudgeyou #judgment #revelations #allegory #illustration #posca

16x20 Work in Progress............

#Resist #WorkInProgress #DeathOfLiberty #Zombie #BlacklightArt #Allegory #Art #Artist #ReproductiveRights #Protest #ProtestArt #Judgment #RedRobes #6Tines #Ascension #Illustration #Posca

NEW STORY: Set in the Central African Republic, this savage satire uses the folkloric “rule of three” to tell a frankly brutal allegory of exploitation and innocence. HOW 'BOUT A COSTLY JOKE (FEATURING DIAMONDS), by Abhishek Sengupta @AbhishekSWrites

https://fabulistmagazine.com/how-bout-a-costly-joke-featuring-diamonds/

#blooddiamonds
#fable
#allegory
#magicrealism
#thefabulistflash

‘#Furiosa’ Is a Dazzling #Blockbuster — And Also a #Trans #Allegory?

The new #FuryRoad #prequel #Furiosa: A #MadMax #Saga explores the #situations and #events that informed that #grizzled #actionmovie #icon

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/furiosa-queer-review/

@Thoreau @MorpheusB

Because the story of #Catiline is batshit, just like that of the #AmericanCatiline.

#history #allegory

Today's pick: The Law and the Gospel (1529) - Lucas Cranach the Elder. #art #Cranach #Allegory

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/787.html

https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech

#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

https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech

#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

https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech

#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

https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech

#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

https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech

#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