Bible Artwork
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve label QS:Len,"Adam and Eve label QS:Les,"Adán y Eva" label QS:Lhu,"Ádám és Éva" label QS:Lca,"L'Adam i l'Eva" label QS:Lcy,"Adda ac Efa" label QS:Lsq,"Adami dhe Eva" label QS:Lfa,"آدم و حوا" label QS:Lbg,"Адам и Ева" label QS:Lfy,"Adam en Eva" label QS:Lro,"Adam și Eva" label QS:Lja,"アダムとイヴ" label QS:Lno,"Adam og Eva" label QS:Lhe,"אדם וחוה" label QS:Lhi,"आदम और हव्वा" label QS:Lfi,"Aatami ja Eeva" label QS:Lwa,"Adan ey Eve" label QS:Leo,"Adamo kaj Evo" label QS:Lcs,"Adam a Eva" label QS:Lit,"Adamo ed Eva" label QS:Lfr,"Adam et Ève" label QS:Lhr,"Adam i Eva" label QS:Lpt,"Adão e Eva" label QS:Lzh,"亚当和夏娃" label QS:Lvi,"Adam và Eva" label QS:Laf,"Adam en Eva" label QS:Llt,"Adomas ir Ieva" label QS:Lsl,"Adam in Eva" label QS:Ltl,"Adan at Eba" label QS:Lur,"حوّا" label QS:Lsv,"Adam och Eva" label QS:Lid,"Adam dan Hawa" label QS:Lnn,"Adam og Eva" label QS:Lsr,"Адам и Ева" label QS:Lnl,"Adam en Eva" label QS:Lsk,"Adam a Eva" label QS:Lru,"Адам и Ева" label QS:Lmk,"Адам и Ева" label QS:Lpl,"Adam i Ewa" label QS:Len,"Adam and Eve" label QS:Lde,"Adam und Eva" label QS:Lko,"아담과 하와" label QS:Lgl,"Adán e Eva""
Lucas Cranach the Elder
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1526
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About This Artwork
Adam and Eve brilliantly combines devotional meaning with pictorial elegance and invention. The scene is set in a forest clearing where Eve stands before the Tree of Knowledge, caught in the act of handing an apple to a bewildered Adam. Entwined in the tree's branches above, the serpent looks on as Adam succumbs to temptation. A rich menagerie of birds and animals - a stag, a hind, a sheep, a roe-buck with its mate, a lion, a wild boar and a horse, and partridges, a stork and a heron - completes this seductive vision of Paradise. On the tree-trunk are the date 1526 and the bat-winged serpent which formed part of Cranach's coat of arms. The painting is particularly admired for its treatment of the human figure and for the profusion of finely painted details, including animals and vegetation. Cranach delights in capturing details such as the roe-buck catching its reflection in the foreground pool of water.
Artwork Details
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Collection
- Biblical Works
- Date
- 1526
- Artwork Type
- Painting
- Primary Figure
- Adam
- Secondary Figure
- Eve
Source and Credit
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Credit:
http://lucascranach.org/UK_CIA_P-1947-LF-77 Alternate: Courtauld Institute of Art
License:
Public domain
Source Page:
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