Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds Overconfidence, Rashness, and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag

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Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds Overconfidence, Rashness, and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag), ca. 1500–1525, South Netherlandish, Wool warp, wool and silk wefts, one place embroidered in wool yarn, Overall: 118 x 150in. ( x 381cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This tapestry fragment is part of a series that symbolically represents man's life on earth as a stag hunt. Man is depicted here as 'the fragile stag' at the upper left bounding through the woods. The stag is being hunted by Desire, Rashness, and Overconfidence, the hunting dogs set loose by Ignorance, portrayed as an elegantly dressed woman at the bottom center of the tapestry

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Size: 4954px × 3861px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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