Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Parts of the World: America
In early modern Europe, the earth was generally understood to be divided into four parts: Europe, America, Asia, and Africa. From the 1500s to the 1800s, the symbolic depiction (“allegory”) of these four geographical areas was widely popular and often known as “The Allegory of...
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Spiradon, Paris; Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., New York, Sale, February 17, 1917; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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