The Art of the Garden

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The Art of the Garden

• Paintings of the Fall of Man throughout European
  History

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Directions

• Select two of the following works from different
  time periods to contrast. How does each work of
  art represent the figures in the story of the
  Fall?

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• Adam and Eve with the serpent, over the doorway
  to Notre Dame de Paris, mid-11th century

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• The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Masaccio,
  1426-27

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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Michelangelo,
1509
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• Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch), 1510
• Now in Prado Museum, Madrid

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• The Fall of Man, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533

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• The Fall of Man, Titian, 1570

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The Fall of Man, Hendrik Goltzius, 1616
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• Adam and Eve, Domenichino, 1623-25

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• William Blake (English), 1808 illustration to
  Miltons Paradise Lost
• Now in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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• Nathaniel Currier (American), 1848
• Now in Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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• Adam and Eve, Tamara de Lempicka, 1932

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• Marc Chagall (French), 1961
• Now in Musee Marc Chagall, Nice