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Dürer, Albrecht (2) 알브레히트 뒤러

바이블엔명화 2020. 8. 13. 09:36

Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528

Adam and Eve (1507)

oil on panel (209 × 81 cm (each panel)) — 1507

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Albrecht Dürer biography

This work is linked to Genesis 3:6

 

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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While Adam longs for the apple, Eve listens to the snake. The two are on the break of the Fall.

 

The sign says that Albrecht Dürer made these panels in 1507. He had just returned from a stay in Venice (1505-1507), where he studied the work of local painters such as Titian, Giorgione and Bellini.

 

In these panels Dürer combined the exactitude of German engravers with the Italian renaissance's knowledge of anatomy. The life-size nudes probably were the first in Northern European art.