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Gnostics discussed Adam and Eve in two known surviving texts, namely the "Apocalypse of Adam" found in the Nag Hammadi documents and the Testament of Adam. The creation of Adam as Protoanthropos, the original man, is the focal concept of these writings. Another Gnostic tradition held that Adam and Eve were created to help defeat Satan.
Paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder include the following, depicted either together in a double portrait or separately in a pair of paintings: Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon , 1508–1510 (see Adam and Eve (Cranach, Besançon) )
Adam and Eve is a 1533 oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated on the rock at the bottom by Adam. It is now in the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, [1] to which it was donated by the Sternburg Foundation. [2] It is one of a series of about thirty paintings by that artist showing the fall of man. The Museum der bildenden ...
The Adam and Eve Archive is an ongoing project by Gary A. Anderson [32] and Michael E. Stone to present all of the original texts in both the original languages and in translation. It contains English translations of the most important texts and a synopsis guide that allows the viewer to easily jump from a section in one source to parallel ...
Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving with burin on copper, 25.1 x 19.8 cm Adam and Eve, 1507, oil on wood panel, 208 x 91 cm per panel. Museo del Prado.. Adam and Eve is the title of two famous works in different media by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist of the Northern Renaissance: an engraving made in 1504, and a pair of oil-on-panel paintings completed in 1507.
Adam and Eve is a c. 1538 oil on limewood painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, [1] [2] [3] acquired in 1949 from the Cistercian monastery in Osek near Duchcov, now in the National Gallery Prague. It is part of a series of works showing the fall of man produced by that artist, including others now in Besançon (c. 1508–1510) and in Florence ...
Adam and Eve is a pair of paintings by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from 1528, [1] housed in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy. The two biblical ancestors are portrayed, in two different panels, on a dark background, standing on a barely visible ground. Both hold two small branches which cover their sexual organs.
Genesis B is a strikingly original and dramatic retelling of the Fall of the Angels and the Fall of Man.. Genesis B depicts the fall of Lucifer from heaven, at which point he is renamed "Satan" and assumes authority as the ruler of Hell.