Tabula Cebetis

A crowd of souls enters a circular enclosure through a gate where they are offered a drink of ignorance and error by a seductive woman. The composition follows their path through worldly temptations like Fortune on her globe and various vices, while a select few climb a steep, rocky mountain toward a temple at the summit labeled the 'Abode of Salvation.' Dozens of individual figures are labeled with Latin names representing personified virtues, vices, and mental states.

The 'Tabula Cebetis' was a fundamental text for Renaissance Neoplatonists and Stoics, serving as a visual and literary guide for the purification of the soul. It represents the philosophical idea that the material world is a labyrinth of delusions that can only be overcome through the application of the liberal arts and the pursuit of 'True Learning.'