Art, literature & history
Allegory of Life
1561
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 38 x 54.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.9075
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giorgio Ghisi. Allegory of Life. Giorgio Ghisi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giorgio_Ghisi,_Allegory_of_Life,_1561,_NGA_11583.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Allegory of Life — Giorgio Ghisi. 1561.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 38 x 54.1 cm (14 15/16 x 21 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.9075. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.