{"id":17409,"date":"2015-11-03T01:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17409"},"modified":"2015-11-03T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:07:22","slug":"bruegels-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/11\/03\/bruegels-sins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruegel’s sins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anger (Ira).<\/em><\/p>\n

The sins are those that Christians used to regard as the seven deadly ones, presented as a series of bizarre phantasmagorias. The prints were engraved by Pieter van der Heyden in 1558 working from drawings made the year before by Bruegel the Elder. All the pictures here link to pages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, and much bigger images which are essential if you want to scrutinise the wealth of strange detail.<\/p>\n

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Avarice (Avaritia).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Envy (Invidia).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gluttony (Gula).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lust (Luxuria).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pride (Superbia).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sloth (Desidia).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Proverbial details<\/a>
\n\u2022 Babel details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anger (Ira). The sins are those that Christians used to regard as the seven deadly ones, presented as a series of bizarre phantasmagorias. The prints were engraved by Pieter van der Heyden in 1558 working from drawings made the year before by Bruegel the Elder. All the pictures here link to pages at the Metropolitan … Continue reading “Bruegel’s sins”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,31],"tags":[892,7746],"class_list":["post-17409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-religion","tag-bruegel","tag-pieter-van-der-heyden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4wN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}