WIERIX, Hieronymus
(b. 1553, Antwerpen, d. 1619, Antwerpen)

Acedia

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Engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Acedia is the personification of sloth (apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue) as one of the seven deadly sins. The print, engraved after Philip Galle, shows its traditional image.




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