Late-Medieval Images of the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve Leaving the Garden Late-Medieval Images of the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve wall painting Hardham, Sussex c. 1125 Eve reaches towards mouth of flying dragon for apple; Adam recoils.
Limbourg Brothers, The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise (1415-16) (left to right) Serpent gives two apples to Eve; Adam tries to resist Eve; God judges Adam and Eve; they depart the gate of Eden.
The story of Adam and Eve in Bocaccio, Concerning the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women (c 1415 by the Boucicat Master) (center) Adam and Eve at the tree (top) Adam farming, Eve tending sheep (bottom) aged Adam and Eve approach Bocaccio to tell him their story
Giovanni Masaccio, Expulsion from the Garden (1426-27)
Jacopo della Quercia, marble relief sculpture for door, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve (c. 1425)
Jan van Eyck, Adam and Eve after the Fall, wings from the Ghent altarpiece (1432)
Hugo van der Goes, The Fall of Man and the Lamentation (diptych c. 1470-75). Compare with van Eyck’s portraits.
Woodcut from Nuremberg Chronicles (1493), “The Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve”