Focus on Adam and Eve (Cranach) and analyze the abstract.
Adam and Eve is a pair of paintings by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from 1528, housed in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
There are other paintings by the same artist with the same title, depicting the subjects either together in a double portrait or separately in a pair of portraits, for instance at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The two biblical ancestors are portrayed, in two different panels, on a dark background, standing on a barely visible ground. Both hold two small branches which cover their sexual organs. Eve holds the traditional apple, with the serpent coming to her from above from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam is shown scratching the right crown part of his scalp.
Cranach Florence Art Institute of Chicago Adam and Eve Uffizi tree of the knowledge of good and evil Adam Kunsthistorisches Museum Lucas Cranach the Elder Leipzig Courtauld Gallery Vienna Eve Museum der bildenden Künste serpent