Grecia, allegoria della santa comunione, 1675-1725 ca

An allegorical representation of the Holy Communion where Christ points to his side wound, allowing blood to flow into a chalice held by an angel. He sits above a golden globe and is surrounded by the symbolic beasts of the Evangelists—the lion, ox, and eagle—while angels in the background hold the cross and the pillar of flagellation. The work features a traditional gold-leaf background and Greek inscriptions characteristic of Post-Byzantine icon painting.

This image connects Christian liturgy with broader cosmological themes through the Tetramorph, which represents the four corners of the universe and the four elements. In Western esoteric traditions, these figures correspond to the Merkabah (Chariot) vision and were later adopted into Neoplatonic and Hermetic diagrams to illustrate the harmony between the divine and the material world.