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Allegory with female personifications of, among others, truth and possibly virtues and vices
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Allegory with female personifications. The personification of Truth sits on a cloud holding a cornucopia and a globe with the word veritas. A seated woman (Faith) with attributes of a cross and anchor tramples with her feet on a half-nude reclining woman (Superstition) holding a monstrance. Faith turns to the gospel and the law (the stone tablets), lying on the scrolls of the prophets on a capital. Three seated women (the three parts of the world) with, among other things, a censer, arrows and bow, and a scorpion look at the appearance of Truth.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineAllegorie met vrouwelijke personificaties van onder andere de waarheid en mogelijk deugden en ondeugden. 1736. François van Bleyswijck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.