Adam and Eve (Dürer)
1504 engraving and 1507 paintings by Dürer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adam and Eve is the title of two famous works in different media by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist of the Northern Renaissance: an engraving made in 1504, and a pair of oil-on-panel paintings completed in 1507. The 1504 engraving depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, surrounded by with several symbolic animals.[1] The engraving transformed how Adam and Eve were popularly depicted in art.[2]
The 1507 painting in the Museo del Prado offered Dürer another opportunity to depict the ideal human figure in a different medium.[3] Painted in Nuremberg soon after his return from Venice, the panels were influenced by Italian art.[3] Dürer's observations on his second trip to Italy provided him with new approaches to portraying the human form. Here, he depicts the figures at human scale—the first full-scale nude subjects in German painting.[3]