Katharine Park
Katharine Park is Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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Allegory
Katharine Park
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~~Allegory, the depiction of abstract concepts through physical embodiments, was a common mode of representation in the sixteenth century. Allegories often took the form of personifications—classicized figures, usually female, adorned with the attributes of their subjects. Corresponding with the period’s new reliance on...
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Katharine Park
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.357-409
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.015
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16369
Chapter subject tags:Allegories, RenaissanceSymbolism in art--Europe--History--16th centurySymbolism in art--EuropePrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryEurope--Intellectual life--16th century