# Allegory

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/allegory-r758b583e829c0f>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [LIPPI, Filippino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Oil on wood, 29 x 22 cm

## Commentary

This rather unusual scene shows God Almighty, or Jove, seated under a tree with the avenging thunderbolt in his hand. On the ground in front of him two boys are assailed by writhing serpents. In the centre of the painting we read: &#34;NULLA DETERIOR PESTIS Q. FAMILIARIS INIMICUS&#34;. In the background, in the mist, the cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence can be recognized. The subject has been interpreted as the story of Laocoon and, more recently, as an allegory of the civil struggles that divided Florence at the time of Savonarola.

## Related artworks

- [Abraham](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/abraham-r0c00fae633820f>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adam-rb26722dac0a6fd>)
- [Adoration of the Child \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-detail-r5993e7ada38874>)
- [Adoration of the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-rb93f60041af347>)
- [Adoration of the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-rc1ff21ba2bf52b>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r015a88a84cff0b>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r874915fcb5fba4>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-r92a022f57bc7d7>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-rc7cc74a5e3624f>)
- [Allegory of Music or Erato](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/allegory-of-music-or-erato-rf583d0ee941d9d>)
- [Altar wall of the Carafa Chapel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/altar-wall-of-the-carafa-chapel-r552c743e630566>)
- [Annunciation \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/annunciation-detail-rc12e6fe28d60c2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)