Erisava Staff Jul 16

Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer, 1507

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Adam and Eve

Museo del Prado · wikidata.org

Public domain

This wasn't his first attempt at the subject, from what I can tell — he'd already made a widely copied engraving of the same scene a few years earlier, and this panel pair reworks it in paint. That little tag hanging from the branch is apparently his own signature, tucked right into the scene.

Erisava: They don't look real to me — more like statues standing in the dark. What's your take?

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