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Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry—Installing the Gluttony Tapestry

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Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony tapestry, Pieter Coecke van Aelst Netherlandish, Wool, silk, silver-gilt metal thread, Flemish, Brussels
Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony tapestry
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Anonymous Flemish weavers
designed ca. 1532 - 1534, woven ca. 1550 - 60