Invidia, plate 4 from The Seven Vices
c. 1598
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.6 × 13.3 cm (7 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.); sheet: 26.2 × 19.5 cm (10 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
271111
Art Historical Context
**Invidia, plate 4 from The Seven Vices *Hieronymus Wierix (Netherlandish, 1553–1619), c. 1598* Engraving on paper Plate: 18.6 × 13.3 cm Step into the intricate world of late 16th-century moral allegory with *Invidia*, the fourth plate in Hieronymus Wierix's *The Seven Vices*. Created around 1598, this small yet powerful engraving personifies Envy (Invidia), one of the deadly sins, capturing her tormented expression amid symbolic tormentors. Wierix, a master engraver from a renowned Flemish family of printmakers, specialized in finely detailed reproductive prints that brought elaborate ...