Paradise
1530 | Lucas der Ältere Cranach
The individual scenes of the Creation and the Fall of Man are presented here in a loose sequence. In the foreground is God’s commandment to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Behind it from right to left are the creation of Adam, the Fall of Man, the creation of Eve, the discovery of their transgression and their expulsion from Paradise.
The individual scenes of the Creation and the Fall of Man are presented here in a loose sequence. In the foreground is God’s commandment to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Behind it from right to left are the creation of Adam, the Fall of Man, the creation of Eve, the discovery of their transgression and their expulsion from Paradise.
Artist:
Lucas der Ältere Cranach (1472 Kronach - 1553 Weimar) DNB
Time:
1530
Object Name
Painting
Culture
German
Material/technology:
Limewood
Dimensions:
81 cm × 114 cm
Framed: 105 cm × 137,3 cm × 7,6 cm
Signed
Inscribed with the snake with standing wings at lower left, dat. 1530
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 3678
Provenance
1621 Prague; 1876 to Vienna