A rare look inside the extraordinary JP Morgan library here.

The library holds a 16th century tapestry called 'The Triumph Of Avarice'. A basic Google search brings up no results for this impressive work :



Avarice is, of course, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, one of the more destructive for communities, and defines out as "an insatiable greed for riches...a miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth."

How intrinsically accurate a tapestry to hang then in a JP Morgan building.

Detail from the mosaics in the library's rotunda :





From photos taken by Chad Bakta for the New York Times.

The JP Morgan Library also has its own copy of the Magna Carta, from 1217, one of the oldest and rarest books in existence.

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