"Gluttony" by
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550)
Designed ca. 1532
- 1534, woven ca. 1550 - 60
Renaissance tapestry: Wool, silk,
silver-gilt metal thread
Dimensions: 12 ft. 9 in.
× 22 ft. 3 in. (388.6 × 678.2 cm)
Pieter Coecke van Aelst was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect and also designed stained glass and tapestries. Pieter's theme of art were christian religious themed. This tapesty is one of many tapestries by Pieter hung in the Metropolitan museum of
art. Gluttony is another word for greed and greed is one of the seven deadly sins because it is wrong to want more and more of things you do not need.
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