Allegory Tank Tops

The Point is a cartoon fable first aired February 2, 1971, and was the first animated feature ever to air in prime time on US television. The Point tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where the law says that everyone and everything must have a point. The film is an allegory showing how society rejects people and ideas that are different from the norm, and makes this point over and over again throughout. Long story short, be yourself!

The Vinegar Tasters (三酸圖, three sours; 嘗醋翁, vinegar tasting old-men; 嘗醋圖, 尝醋图), is a traditional subject in Chinese religious painting. The allegorical composition depicts the three founders of China's major religious and philosophical traditions: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The theme in the painting has been interpreted as favoring Taoism and critical of the others. The three men are dipping their fingers in a vat of vinegar and tasting it; one man reacts with a sour expression, one reacts with a bitter expression, and one reacts with a sweet expression. The three men are Confucius, Buddha, and Laozi, respectively. Each man's expression represents the predominant attitude of his religion: Confucianism saw life as sour, in nee...

Vintage illustration antique world map by Pieter Goos, 1666. Birds are flying towards a shining sun casting rays over the hemispheres and continents. Below the chart is a set of allegorical figures representing the four seasons, summer, autumn, spring and winter. Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula.

For centuries Italia has been depicted as Italia Turrita - an allegory of Italy as a young woman crowned with a crown of towers often accompanied by the Stella d'Italia, or the "Star of Italy". Poets write of "Italia turrita e stellata" - and now you can wear these symbols proudly with this new retro inspired design.

The symbiosis of a wandering Albatross and a sailing ship. An Albatross sailboat flies in the sky against the background of a white fluffy cloud. Illustration-an allegory in the style of an old engraving

La Danse Macabre. Coloured engraving of a dance of death. The medieval engraving comprises a group skeletons dancing and playing musical instruments. These images were religion-based, as an allegory on the universality of death. Taken from The Book of Chronicles, by Hartmann Scedel, published in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1493.