<Li> Artemisia Gentileschi--Allegory of Inclination (c. 1620), An Allegory of Peace and the Arts under the English Crown (1638); Self - Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (c. 1638--39) </Li> <Li> The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the Thirty Years War, with portraits of many leading political and military figures . </Li> <Li> Jan Vermeer--Allegory of Painting (c. 1666) </Li> <Li> Marcel Duchamp--The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1912--1923) </Li>

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