allegorical

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The villa's 2.75-metre-wide Caravaggio painted ceiling, commissioned in 1597, depicts an allegorical scene with the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto representing the transformation of lead into gold.

From Reuters

At one end of the room an allegorical mural represents Law; at the other, History.

From Washington Post

Grant appeared to be making a literary reference to the allegorical Vanity Fair of sinful frivolity, but this seemed to be lost on model-turned-TV personality Graham.

From Los Angeles Times

In a garden, expertise was personal and anecdotal — it was allegorical — it was ancient — it had been handed down; one felt that gardeners across generations were united in a kind of guild.

From New York Times

The confrontational and allegorical play is about a Black man and a white woman on the New York subway.

From New York Times