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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.
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.
[Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg made this 1504] References: Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur, 1 (Grav.Cuivre) Dürer catalog: a manual about Albrecht Dürer's engravings, etchings, woodcuts, their conditions, editions and watermarks, 1
English: Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent.After introduced to the canon of proportions—a mathematical system designed to depict the ideal human body—by Jacopo de' Barbari, an Italian artist visiting Nuremberg in 1500, Dürer used the technique to create Adam and Eve. He paired their flawless ...
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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 ...
Media in category "Paintings of Adam and Eve" This category contains only the following file. Marc Chagall, 1911-12, Hommage à Apollinaire, or Adam et Ève (study), gouache, watercolor, ink wash, pen and ink and collage on paper, 21 x 17.5 cm.jpg 1,018 × 1,230; 1.17 MB
That year Rodin was also commissioned by France's Ministry of Fine Arts to produce two colossal figures of Adam and Eve, which he suggested using to flank his The Gates of Hell project, then ongoing. For the figure of Adam he reused The Creation of Man , whilst Eve was created separately.