BOSCH, Hieronymus
(b. ca. 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch)

Last Judgment Triptych (detail)

1504-08
Mixed technique on panel
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

The detail from the central panel depicts the sin of Avarice and its punishment. The avaricious are boiled in the great cauldron just visible beneath one of the buildings in the central panel. The cauldron is filled with the molten metal of their money assets.