Metraipolis › archive › dc_c4e8a015efce

Allegorical sculpture — Wikipedia (en)

Source: Wikipedia (en)
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
Archived: 2026-11-08T15:07:48.104Z
SHA-256 of the archived text: 700e530a0b87d7d629aa26d80b34c7f63adf5d0e7578c6984ecfc8e08dbccadc
Stable URL of this page: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_c4e8a015efce

How to cite

Allegorical sculpture — Wikipedia (en) — Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture (CC-BY-SA-4.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_c4e8a015efce (Metraipolis archive dc_c4e8a015efce, sha256 700e530a0b87d7d629aa26d80b34c7f63adf5d0e7578c6984ecfc8e08dbccadc)

BibTeX

@misc{dcc4e8a015efce,
  title = {Allegorical sculpture — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_c4e8a015efce; sha256 700e530a0b87d7d629aa26d80b34c7f63adf5d0e7578c6984ecfc8e08dbccadc},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Allegorical sculpture are sculptures of personifications of abstract ideas, as in allegory. Common in the western world, for example, are statues of Lady Justice representing justice, traditionally holding scales and a sword, and the statues of Prudence, representing Truth by holding a mirror and squeezing a serpent. This approach uses the human form and its posture, gesture, clothing and props to wordlessly convey social values and themes. It may be seen in funerary art as early as 1580. They were used on Renaissance monuments when patron saints became unacceptable. Particularly popular were the four cardinal virtues and the three Christian virtues, but others such as fame, victory, hope, and time are also represented. The use of allegorical sculpture was fully developed under the École des Beaux-Arts. It is sometimes associated with Victorian art, and is commonly found in works dating from around 1900.

Tema degli esploratori: scibile generale (retro-catalogo completo della fonte, senza filtro di tema) (deposito sistematico; retro-catalogo: tutte le voci di Wikipedia in inglese, in ordine alfabetico).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Allegorical sculpture» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture
Wikidata Q4731380: «genere scultoreo» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4731380
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_sculpture?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
Estratto dell'introduzione non modificato nel contenuto; revisione 1324431306, consultata il 2026-11-08T15:03:46.858Z tramite l'API ufficiale di Wikipedia. Impronta SHA-256 dell'estratto: 59ff11b3e7fa311a06989820b14a6628d436d9b3c58aac7a2baf8da43f8752da