The End of a Misspent Life (c.1867) - Elihu Vedder (1836–1923) #symbolism #romanticism #allegorical_painting

Allegory of sight (c.1617) - Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) & Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) #baroque #allegorical_painting

The Stream of Life (On the River of Life) (1896) - Hugo Simberg (1873–1917) #symbolism #allegorical_painting

Dance of Autumn (1917) - Piotr Stachiewicz (1858–1938) #symbolism #art_nouveau #allegorical_painting

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1902) - Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913) #mystical_symbolism #modern #allegorical_painting

The Last Journey (c.1880) - Jakub Schikaneder (1855–1924) #realism #symbolism #allegorical_painting

Stevenson Memorial (1903) - Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) #american_renaissance #symbolism #tonalism #allegorical_painting

The Chariot of Death (c.1848-51) - Théophile Schuler (1821–1878) #dark_romanticism #allegorical_painting

The Dance (1859) - William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) #academic_neoclassicism #allegorical_painting