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The Allegory of Faith
The Allegory of Faith, also known as Allegory of the Catholic Faith, is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670–72. The painting is currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and has been since 1931.
This and "Art of Painting" are his only works that fall under history painting in the contemporary hierarchy of genres, though they still have his typical composition of one or two figures in a domestic interior. ("The Art of Painting
making and a dream about dreams. Other critics read "Inception" as Christian allegory and focus on the film's use of religious and water symbolism. Yet other critics, such as Kristin Thompson, see less value in the ambiguous ending of the film and more in its structure and novel method of storytelling, highlighting "Inception" as a new form of narrative that revels in "continuous exposition".
Several critics and scholars have noted the film has many striking similarities to the 2006 anime film "Paprika" by Satoshi