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[[File:Castellania (Valletta) Allegories of Justice and Truth.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Baroque allegorical figures of [[Lady Justice]], [[Prudence]], [[Pheme|fame]] and [[Victoria (mythology)|glory]], on the façade of the 18th century [[Castellania (Valletta)|Castellania]], in [[Valletta]]]]
'''Allegorical sculpture''' are sculptures of [[personification]]s of abstract ideas as in [[allegory]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html|title=Literary Terms and Definitions A))</ref> Common in the [[western world]], for example, are statues of [[Lady Justice]] representing [[justice]], traditionally holding scales and a [[Sword of Justice|sword]], and the statues of [[Prudence]], representing Truth by holding a mirror and squeezing a serpent.<ref name="independent">((cite news|last1=Thake |first1=Conrad |title=The Architectural legacy of Grand Master Pinto (2) |url=http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2008-05-16/local-news/The-Architectural-legacy-of-Grand-Master-Pinto-(2)-207685 |work=[[The Malta Independent]] |date=16 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801192321/http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2008-05-16/local-news/The-Architectural-legacy-of-Grand-Master-Pinto-%282%29-207685 |archive-date=1 August 2016 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

This approach of using the human form and its posture, gesture, clothing and props to wordlessly convey [[Value system|social value]]s and [[Theme (arts)|theme]]s.
It may be seen in [[church monument|funerary art]] as early as 1580. They were used on [[Renaissance]] monuments when [[patron saint]]s became unacceptable. Particularly popular were the [[four cardinal virtues]] and the [[Theological virtues|three Christian virtues]], but others such as [[Pheme|fame]], [[Victoria (mythology)|victory]], [[hope]] and [[Father time|time]] are also represented. The use of allegorical sculpture was fully developed under the [[École des Beaux-Arts]]. It is sometimes associated with [[Victorian era|Victorian]] art, and is commonly found in works dating from around 1900.

==Notable allegorical sculptures==
*The Four cardinal virtues, by [[Maximilian Colt]], on the [[church monument|monument]] to [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury]] in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Bishop's Hatfield]] [[Church of England parish church|Church]] in the English county of [[Hertfordshire]], before 1641.
*[[Castellania (Valletta)#Exterior|Pinto's Allegories of Justice and Truth]] by architect [[Giuseppe Bonici]] and mason Giovanni Puglisi, 1758.<ref name="melitensiawth">((cite journal|last1=Denaro |first1=Victor F. |title=Houses in Merchants Street, Valletta |journal=Melita Historica |date=1958 |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=159–161 |url=http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Melita%20Historica/MH.02(1956-59)/MH.2(1958)3/orig04.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416124648/http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Melita%20Historica/MH.02%281956-59%29/MH.2%281958%293/orig04.pdf |archive-date=16 April 2016 |url-status=dead ))</ref><ref name="maestrogianni">((cite journal|last1=Attard|first1=Christian|title=The sad end of Maestro Gianni|journal=Treasures of Malta|date=2013|issue=56|pages=47–51|url=https://www.academia.edu/7166765))</ref>
*The figures of the four continents and four arts and sciences surrounding the [[Albert Memorial]] in [[Kensington Gardens]], 1872.
*The [[Statue of Liberty]] (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), 1886.
*[[Passing of the Buffalo]] by [[Cyrus Edwin Dallin|Cyrus Dallin]] in [[Muncie, Indiana]], 1929.
*Figures of ''War'' and ''Peace'' located at the Millennium Monument at Heroes' Square [[Hősök tere]], Budapest, Hungary, ca. 1900
*In [[Pan-American Exposition]] of 1901 in [[Buffalo, New York]] had an extensive scheme of allegorical sculpture programmed by [[Karl Bitter]].
*Statue of Justice on the [[Old Bailey]] in [[City of London|London]] ca. 1902
*Four statues, ''Industry, Science, Agriculture'', and ''Literature'', by [[J. Massey Rhind]] at the [[Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse]], [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], 1905.
*The allegorical group on top of [[Grand Central Terminal]] in [[Manhattan]], created by the French sculptor [[Jules-Felix Coutan]] in 1912, represents the [[Roman mythology|Roman gods]], [[Hercules]] (physical energy), [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] (commerce<ref>Lederer, Joseph, photographs by Arley Bondarin, ‘’All Around Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York City’’, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975 p. 86</ref>) and [[Minerva]] (wisdom), and collectively represents 'Transportation'.
*The [[Memory (Dallin)|Memory Statue]] is the centerpiece of the Sherborn War Memorial in [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]] by [[Cyrus Dallin]], 1924.

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