"Allegory of time and Truth" Painting by Annibale Carracci

Iconographically, Hannibal's Allegory illustrates the victory of truth favored by time. 

The personification of Time - recognizable by the decrepit age and by the hourglass 

in his hand - in fact, pulls out of a well the winged figure of Truth (an ephebic adolescent)

 that looks in a mirror while crushing Deception (or Fraud). 

The Deception seems to have a small monstrous head on its neck which underlines 

its duplicity and its wickedness

Genuine hand carved shell cameo

Shell: Cypraecassis Rufa

Cameo Size: 63 mm

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