Greed – the seven capital vices (avareza)

Avarice, either understood as vice or as a deadly sin, corresponds to a discommendable situation of the human condition.


A avareza, quer como vício ou pecado mortal, corresponde a uma situação pouco recomendável da condição humana.

Hieronimus Bosch (ca 1450-1516)-'greed' (the seven deadly sins)'-oil on wood-1485 Madrid-Museo del Prado

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (design) (1481-1536) and Ugo da Carpi (flourished 1502-1532)-'Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses'woodcut-(1516-1517) New York-Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pieter van Heyden (active 1551-1569) after Pieter Brueghel the Elder (ca 1525-1569)-'greed'-engraving New York-Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1626)-'allegory of avarice'-oil on canvas New York-Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paulus Moreelse (1571-1638)-'avarice'-oil on canvas-1621