MORETTO da Brescia
(b. ca. 1498, Brescia, d. 1554, Brescia)

Allegory of Faith

c. 1540
Oil on panel, 102 x 78 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Similarly to other works from the Brescia school the painting has the character of the genre. The inscription on the band of the bouquet: IVSTUS EX FIDE VIVIT (The just lives with faith).