Allegory – a kind of metaphorical style

Allegory – The Concept
) In the visual arts (painting and sculpture, is the allegory, the symbolic representation of the "on" or "Save" or the representation of the hand. As a metaphor for literary artists to use one theme to another, a person apparently independent represent.

Details
Using symbolism as the basis of broad, abstract concepts and radicals are the most common themes of allegory. Classical, philosophical and theological virtues and vices, such as faith, hope,Love, courage, greed, lust, anger and pride are the most important ideas in this genre. Another dominant theme here is "art" of a creative concept to communicate, such as painting, sculpture, music, dance and poetry, visual. The viewer is often unaware of the broader vision of a work of art, understand its components metaphorical.

History
The metaphorical nature of the narrative in the visual arts has been immensely popular in European art in the Renaissance (1400-1525) andBaroque (1500-1700) periods. Strongly supported by the Catholic Church, was a means to attract attention and highlight the redemption, the Church's role in the realization. The popularity of classical themes was also instrumental in the emergence of allegorical themes in literature and painting in this period. The gradual destruction of traditional culture and religious orthodoxy of the court 18 New Century, the artistic practice defined. Representations moved from religious, historical and allegoricalThose whose lives are very specially raised issues that are often associated with day to day.

The artists and works of art
Charity O '(1520) by Andrea del Sarto (Italy, 1486-1530), makes this theological virtue as a woman with some children.
O 'The Musicians' (1595) by Michelangelo Carravaggio (Italy, 1571-1610) shows an allegory of music. Four boys are shown in traditional costumes. They play different instruments and singing.
O 'Art of Painting "(1666) byJohannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-75) is based on the allegory of painting. It shows a painting by a woman lies in her studio.
Allegory O 'Painting "(1765) and" Allegory of Music "(1764) by Francois Boucher (French, 1703-70).
O 'Journey of Life "(1840) series by Thomas Cole (American, 1801-48) is an allegory of the four stages of life. The pictures with the name' Children, Youth," "masculinity" and "Age 'show a traveler on a boat trip on the river of life witha guardian angel.
The Blind Girl "(1856) by John Everett Millais (England, 1829-96), shows two female beggars. It is an allegory of the senses and comparison o 'the experiences of the sisters who are blind and visually impaired.

Conclusion
As a form of rhetoric, was an allegorical flow medium, the audience in the ancient world to convince. Modern audience not much about these problems concern the lack of such analogies in contemporary culture. Although some contemporary artists haveContinuing work to create in this genre, but their centers of ideology pure aesthetics. "For them, art is more important than the rhetoric associated with visual impairment.