Practice, behavior or habit generally considered immoral, depraved, or degrading in the associated society
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A man caught between the female personifications of vice and virtue. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.
Paolo VeroneseDate: [between 1729 and 1742]Reference: 27737i
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A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
Date: [1563?]Reference: 26276i
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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
Reference: 15851i
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Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Christoph MurerDate: 1622Reference: 26660i
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A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
Bakewell, J., active 1770.Date: 1870Reference: 26799i