Sujet
Adam and Eve, 1504. Creator: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528).
Légende
Adam and Eve, 1504. Du¨rer based Adam?s pose on the Apollo Belvedere, a Roman sculpture discovered in Italy during the late 1400s. He constructed the idealized bodies of Adam and Eve using geometry and a mathematical system of proportion loosely derived from ancient models. For Du¨rer, who mostly depicted Christian subjects, the creation of theoretically perfect human bodies was a pathway to comprehending the divine. He thus represented Adam and Eve as he understood them in both theological and artistic terms: moments before tasting the forbidden fruit, they are still uncorrupted by sin and death, existing in a state of faultless beauty.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F68_341
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,2Mo (6,3Mo) / 32,2cm x 41,4cm / 3802 x 4890 (300dpi)