Gerlach 1979b
“Jeroen Bosch – Avaritia; Tafelblad (6) – hier es ghierigheit” (P. Gerlach O.F.M. Cap.) 1979
[in: Brabantia, 28 (1979), nr. 5, pp. 194-199]
[Reprinted in Gerlach 1988: 154-159]
[Also mentioned in Gibson 1983: 119 (E266)]
Gerlach focuses on the Avaritia segment of the Prado Tabletop. It was probably inspired by Des Coninx Summe, the Middle Dutch translation of a French devotional treatise. The two men to the left are a notary and an advocate. Gerlach finds it difficult to identify Avaritia in the Seven Deadly Sins panel (Geneva) by a Bosch follower. He does not see that greed is represented here by means of a pawnbroker.
[explicit 26th March 2016]
