Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1670–72
The Allegory of Faith, also known as The Allegory of the Catholic Faith, is a Dutch Golden Age painting by Johannes Vermeer from about 1670–1672. It has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1931.
This and The Art of Painting are his only works that fall under the category of history painting in the contemporary hierarchy of genres, though they still have his typical composition of one or two figures in a domestic interior. Both share several features: the perspective is almost the same, and there is a multicolor tapestry at the left of each painting, pulled to the left to reveal the scene.
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