IMAGE: Sandro Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (c. 1495)
From left to right: Truth, pointing to Heaven. Repentance, in black. Perfidy, in red and yellow, and Calumny, in white and blue, assault a helpless victim. Fraud is arranging Calumny's hair. Rancor reaches out to cover the King's eyes. Ignorance and Suspicion speak into the King's donkey ears.
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