Allegory on the Immaculate Conception, Pierre Lelu, After Giorgio Vasari, 1783 print At the bottom, Adam and Eva are tied to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil containing the snake. Next to them are Moses, Kings, Priesters, a soldier and other figures. At the top of the tree, Maria floats with angels on a cloud. With her left foot she is a half moon and tramples the snake in the tree. paper etching 'Immaculata', 'Purisima': Mary, usually standing on a crescent moon, descending from heaven, exempt from original sin (sometimes trampling serpent)

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