Triumphal arch with Ferdinand of Austria and Dutch Maiden with allegorical figures

Triumphal arch of monumental architecture with allegory on Spanish rule and the Southern Netherlands. Cardinal Ferdinand of Austria, the cardinal-infant, is taken by the hand by Minerva and surrounded by, among others, the goddesses of Peace and Abundance. A soldier as personification of War holds the Dutch Maiden captive. A man with two faces as personification of Deceit threatens the Maiden with a dagger hidden behind an olive branch. In a cartouche under a coat of arms on top of the architecture stands a motto: *in te spes inclinata recumbit*. In honor of the entry of Ferdinand into Antwerp, 17 April 1635.