Personificatie van de Lust - Onkuisheid Luxuria. NL-HlmNHA 1477 53010750

A woman representing the vice of Lust strides through a landscape, holding a small bird on her outstretched hand and a flowering branch in the other. A horned goat, a traditional symbol of carnal desire and lechery, walks at her side while she wears jewelry and bared robes. The image uses the dynamic, muscular style of the Haarlem Mannerists to emphasize the physical presence of the figure.

This work reflects the Renaissance moralizing tradition that utilized classical and mythological imagery to illustrate Christian concepts of vice and virtue. It relates to the Neoplatonic distinction between 'Sacred' and 'Profane' love, where carnal libido is seen as a force that perverts the higher faculties of faith and law.