The French Heritage: From Utopia to Eden - Literature and Painting in Quebec: From Imagery to Identity - page 28

1.3 Anonymous, La France apportant la foi aux Hurons de la Nouvelle-France ,
fin du 17 e siècle. Huile sur toile, 219 x 219 cm. Musée des Ursulines de Québec,
Collection du Monastère des Ursulines de Québec / France Bringing Faith to the
Hurons of New-France , end of seventeenth century. Oil on canvas, 219 x 219
cm. Musée des Ursulines de Québec, Collection du Monastère des Ursulines
de Québec.
painting below, thereby closing the composition vertically, just as the
symmetrically placed trees, rocks, and hills close it horizontally, in typi-
cal neoclassical fashion. Given the central position of the painting
within the painting, one might say that it is art itself that mediates, not
only between heaven and earth, but between cultures, whose different