Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer, 1504
Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer
Adam and Eve, zoomed in
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Adam and Eve is a Northern Renaissance Engraving Print created by Albrecht Dürer in 1504. It lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Adam and Eve, Print, Hatching & Cross Hatching and Contrapposto. SourceDownloadSee Adam and Eve in the Kaleidoscope

Albrecht Dürer was obsessed with proportion and symbolism. In this engraving, Adam holds a mountain ash branch, the tree of life, while Eve holds a fig branch—the forbidden tree of knowledge. The two figures stand in the classical Greek contrapposto posture, their bodies reflecting Dürer’s theory of perfect human geometry, described in his book Vier Bücher von menschlichen Proportion (Four books of human proportion).

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