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# Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: the serpent stands for Satan, and the stone for Jesus
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/allegoriia-very-vermeera-zmeia-oznachaet-satanu-a-kamen-iisusa/
- Published: 2017-01-21T08:21:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:46:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Faith, Art, Humour

Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: the serpent stands for Satan, and the stone for Jesus. It put me in mind of a Muscovite lady who pinned a snake that had crept in from the neighbours' flat under a rubbish bin and, in terror, awaited her son's return from work so that he might dispatch the reptile