Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 170r

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Below a plaque with the inscription, DESCENDI VT LIBEREM EUM, the Ark of the Covenant rests on an altar within an apse. At the entrance four panels contain winged allegorical figures in bas-relief. Before the apse, pairs of Corinthian columns on bases support an entablature bearing an arch and fringed curtains drawn to the sides above a tessellated marble floor. Below there is a quatrain. Frame consists of bands of burnished and dull gold.