Titian 1487/90 – 1576
The Fall
oil on canvas (240 × 186 cm) — c. 1550
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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Eve takes a fruit from the tree, even though God had explicitly forbidden her and Adam to do so. She is tempted by a snake in the tree. Adam, sitting, seems to try to stop her.
Titian probably got the idea of showing Adam seated from a fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Signatura.
The fox behind Eve is considered to be a symbol of the devil.
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