Extravagance or Lechery
1558 · copperplate engraving
Dimensions (29.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
The Seven Vices, also the Seven deadly sins: Greed (Avaritia), Acedia or depression without joy (Disidia), Gluttony (Gula), Envy (Invidia), Wrath (Ira), Pride (Superbia) and Extravagance or Lechery (Luxuria). By Pieter Bruegel, published by Hieronymus Cock. The series is completed by a final depiction of the doom.
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About this artwork
Extravagance or Lechery (1558) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, copperplate engraving, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel) the Elder c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus…
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