Paradise (파라다이스)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jheronimus Bosch ca. 1450 – 1516

Garden of Earthly Delights - Paradise

oil on panel (220 × 97 cm) — 1480/90, or ca. 1500

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Jheronimus Bosch biography

 

This work is linked to Genesis 2:25

(창 2:24)

이러므로 남자가 부모를 떠나 그의 아내와 합하여 둘이 한 몸을 이룰지로다

 

 

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Left wing of the triptych Garden of Earthly Delights.

Many animals and birds appear to be living in peaceful co-existence. Quite a number of the animals are African, like the elephant and the giraffe.

The central figure is God, who has just created Eve out of one of Adam's ribs. God introduces them to each other.

In the foreground some animals can be seen eating others, thus not living together peacefully. Perhaps Bosch meant that the Fall was iminent.

Central panel: the Garden of Earthly Delights.
Right panel: hell.

 

 

 

 

 

Jan Brueghel the Elder 1568 – 1625

Paradise

oil on copper (45 × 59 cm) — c. 1615

  Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Jan Brueghel the Elder biography

 

This work is linked to Genesis 2:25

(창 2:24)

이러므로 남자가 부모를 떠나 그의 아내와 합하여 둘이 한 몸을 이룰지로다

 

The Terrestrial Paradise.

 

 

 

 

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

(창 2:24)

이러므로 남자가 부모를 떠나 그의 아내와 합하여 둘이 한 몸을 이룰지로다

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Fra Angelico 1387 – 1455

Paradise

tempera on panel (102 × 28 cm) — c. 1435 - 1440

Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin

Fra Angelico biography

 

This work is linked to Genesis 2:25

(창 2:24)

이러므로 남자가 부모를 떠나 그의 아내와 합하여 둘이 한 몸을 이룰지로다

 

Tradition has it that Adam and Eve were naked in Paradise, making this is a very chaste rendition. This is the left panel of the Last Judgment triptych.

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 – 1564

The Expulsion from Paradise

fresco — 1508-1512

  Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Michelangelo Buonarroti biography

 

This work is linked to Genesis 3:24

(창 3:24)

이같이 하나님이 그 사람을 쫓아내시고 에덴 동산 동쪽에 그룹들과 두루 도는 불 칼을 두어 생명 나무의 길을 지키게 하시니라

 

As punishment for their disobedience Adam and Eve are driven from Paradise. Another part of their punishment is their realization that they are naked.

Part of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

 

 

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 – 1564

The Fall

fresco — 1508-1512

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Michelangelo Buonarroti biography

 

This work is linked to Genesis 3:6

(창 3:6)

여자가 그 나무를 본즉 먹음직도 하고 보암직도 하고 지혜롭게 할 만큼 탐스럽기도 한 나무인지라 여자가 그 열매를 따먹고 자기와 함께 있는 남편에게도 주매 그도 먹은지라

 

Eve takes the apple from the snake, who has told her that after eating the fruit she will be as God, knowing good and evil. The moment is known as the Fall.

The fresco is part of Michelangelo's decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.