1. Allegory and symbol

2. Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People (1830)

4. ALLEGORY (1)Allegory as a trope: abstract idea → concrete, sensual representation vertical levels (un)motivatedness personification allegory (e.g. Death as the Grim Reaper; Justitia) „Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back whereain he puts Alms for Oblivion” (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)

5. personification allegory “Fear walks tall on this planet. Fear walks big and fat and fine... One of these days, I’m going to walk right up to fear. Someone's got to do it... Fear, I suspect, is really incredibly brave. Fear will lead me straight through the door, will prop me up in the alley among the crates and the empties, and show me who’s the boss... When it comes to fighting, I'm brave... But fear really scares me.” (Martin Amis: Money)

6. Gentile da Fabriano: Adoration of the Magi

8. Andrea Mantegna: Adoration of the Magi

9. Lucas Cranach (1534)

10. Hieronymus Bosch: Superbia (Vanity) (the Seven Deadly Sins)

11. Antonello da Messina: St. Jerome in His Study

12. partridge

13. Carpaccio : Annunci- ation

14. Goldfinch - crucifixion

15. ICONOGRAPHIC TRADITION A set of traditional images: animals, plants, landscapes Worked like writing (rebus)

16. Francesco del Cossa: Annunciation

17. snail in Annunciation

18. Carlo Crivelli: Madonna with St Francis and St. Sebastian

19. Crivelli (detail)

20. The Lady and the Unicorn

21. Titian: „Sacred and Profane Love”

22. SYMBOL symbol in aesthetics: not the same as symol in semiotics (icon - index – symbol) or symbol in cultural anthropology concrete → abstract level suggestion (rather than direct meaning) ambiguity untranslatable Lit: The house of the Ushers; the conch in Golding

23. Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

24. Friedrich: The Abbey in the Oakwood

25. Edward Burne-Jones: The Mirror of Venus

26. Arnold Böcklin: The Sacred Wood

27. Puvis de Chavannes: The Poor Fisherman