Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472 – 1553
Paradise
oil on panel (81 × 114 cm) — 1530
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Lucas Cranach the Elder biography
This work is linked to Genesis 2:25
Genesis 2 - Old Testament
Genesis 2 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
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This panel shows a number of tableaux from Genesis.
Background, center: Eve is created out of one of Adam's ribs. On the foreground the two are addressed by God, who often made a stroll through the Garden.
Background, center-right: Eve has Adam take a bite from the forbidden fruit. Suddenly they are ashamed of their nudity, and hide behind a bush. But the archangel finds them and chases them out of the Garden (background left).
One might be tempted to think that Cranach used rubber dolls as models for Adam and Eve, as they don't seem to have any bones.
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