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A Closer Look: Allegory Erika Langmuir

A Closer Look: Allegory By Erika Langmuir

A Closer Look: Allegory by Erika Langmuir


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Summary

When we say that 'Love is blind' or 'Time flies' - making concepts sound like living beings - we are using the language of allegory. Painters have long relied on allegory to create 'message pictures'. This guide helps readers understand the language of allegory within Western painting - be it from the National Gallery or from other collections.

A Closer Look: Allegory Summary

A Closer Look: Allegory by Erika Langmuir

Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create message pictures. Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth, the Bible, or medieval astrology, all too often puzzle modern viewers. This Closer Look guide illustrates and explains the main types of visual allegory in Western art and the contexts in which they were originally created and viewed.



Published by the National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

About Erika Langmuir

Erika Langmuir, OBE, was Head of Education at the National Gallery, London, and is the author of many books, including Masterpieces and The National Gallery Companion Guide.

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GOR005240082
9781857094855
1857094859
A Closer Look: Allegory by Erika Langmuir
Used - Very Good
Paperback
National Gallery Company Ltd
20100624
96
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