# Allegory of Gluttony and Lust [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOSCH, Hieronymus]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 36 x 32 cm ## Commentary The intimate association between Gluttony and Lust in the medieval moral system was expressed by Bosch in this fragment of a painting at Yale University. Gluttony is personified by the swimmers at the upper left who have gathered around a large wine barrel straddled by a pot-bellied peasant. Another man swims closer to shore, his vision obscured by the meat pie balanced on his head. This scene is followed, on the right, by a pair of lovers in a tent, another motif reminiscent of the Lust scene in the Prado "Tabletop". That they should be engaged in drinking wine is entirely appropriate: "Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus" \(Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes\); this tag from Terence was well known to the Middle Ages, and that Gluttony and Drunkenness lead to Lust was a lesson that the moralizers never tired of driving home to their audiences. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(central panel\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Animal studies]() - [Beehive and Witches]() - [Beggars and Cripples]() - [Beggars]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()