Carrie Ann Baade’s work engages in a critical dialogue between historical painting traditions and contemporary self-inquiry. By reconstructing fragments of Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, she employs allegory as a vehicle for exploring the moral, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. Through her synthesis of classical technique and postmodern recomposition, Baade reclaims the visual language of Western art history to address questions of identity, transformation, and the persistence of myth in the modern psyche.