The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Vices (Pieter Bruegel the Elder)  

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Detail of Superbia (1577) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, science fiction avant-la-lettre (from the collection The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Vices)
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Detail of Superbia (1577) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, science fiction avant-la-lettre (from the collection The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Vices)

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The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Vices is a series of prints by Pieter Bruegel the Elder on the theme of the seven deadly sins, or vices, published around 1556-7 by Hieronymus Cock, based on drawings by the artist.

The series includes Greed (Avaritia)[1], Acedia[2] or depression without joy (Disidia), Gluttony (Gula)[3], Envy (Invidia)[4], Wrath (Ira)[5], Pride (Superbia)[6] and Extravagance or Lechery (Luxuria)[7] and a final plate[8] depicting doom.

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