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바이블엔명화 2020. 8. 13. 08:21

Masaccio 1401 – 1428

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise

fresco (height: 255 cm) — 1424-25

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

Masaccio biography

This work is linked to Genesis 3:24

 

Genesis 3 - Old Testament

Genesis 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fru

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The moment Adam and Eve are driven from Paradise, they realize that they are naked. This is the first time that they feel shame.

 

 

Prudish church officials probably were responsible for the fig leaves that were added to cover intimate parts. The leaves were removed when the painting was cleaned in 1988.

 

Eve appears to be carrying all the suffering in the world. Adam holds his hands before his eyes in order not to look at her.

 

 

This large fresco in the Brancacci Chapel surely must have impressed Masaccio's contemporaries.