Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer, 1504
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"Adam and Eve" - (Koehler 1888): It is equally certain that the Biblical story served the artist only as a pretext for representing the nude, both male and female, according to the best lights he then had. Based on the Apollo Belvedere and on Venus.
The rift in the tree, under Adam's left armpit, which is the distinguishing mark of the second state, had an obvious artistic purpose. Durer wished to darken the part in question, so as to give more effectual relief to Adam's arm. Nowhere else has Durer treated the flesh with such caressing care, using much fine dotting in the modelling, and in no other plate prior to "Adam and Eve" has he used such a variety of textures in a conscious striving for color.
It is instructive to compare this with the "Virgin with a Monkey" which despite the variety of objects, is pure black and white. This "Adam and Eve" are quite unconscious of their nakedness; they proclaim for the peoples north of the Alps the emancipation of the flesh under the influence of the antique and its release from the curse which for fifteen hundred years had rested upon it.
"Adam and Eve" - (1905 Wolfflin): This print is not popular. It cannot be, for there is no representation of the Fall of Man that is more formal, statuesque, and lacking in warmth. Constructed figures were in Durer's time a new concept, an attempt to picture man in proportional perfection. Neither form nor movement describes the entire meaning of this print. It is the structure and the limbs of the human body which seem to be the determining factor.
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"Adam and Eve" (1507) Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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Popular Works by Albrecht Durer
The Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) • Adam and Eve (1504) • The Last Supper (1523) • The Rhinoceros (1515) • Christ on the Mount of Olives (1510) • Christ on the Cross with Three Angels (1523-1525) • The Great Triumphal Car (1518-1519) • Hand (1528) • Portrait of Emperor Maximilian (1518)
Albrecht Durer's Drawings
Self-Portrait as the Man of Sorrows (1522) • Self-Portrait (1521) • Adam and Eve (1504) • Winged Man, in Idealistic Clothing, Playing a Lute (1497) • Walrus (1521) • Head of the Twelve Year Old Christ (1506) • St Jerome in His Study (1511) • Study of Hands (1506) • Portrait of Erasmus (1520) • The Lamentation (1522)
Albrecht Durer's Woodcuts - The Apocalypse
The Large Passion: 6. The Crucifixion (1498) • St. Michael Fighting the Dragon (1498) • The Large Passion: 9. Last Supper (1510) • The Whore of Babylon (1498) • The Large Passion: 11. Christ in Limbo (1510) • The Large Passion: 3. Flagellation of Christ (1497)
Albrecht Durer's Engraved Pasion
Resurrection (1512) • Christ before Caiaphas (1512) • Harrowing of Hell; or, Christ in Limbo (1512) • Crucifixion (1511) • Lamentation over Christ (1507) • Man of Sorrows by the Column (No. 1) (1509) • Flagellation (1512) • Deposition (1512) • Christ before Pilate (1512)
Albrecht Durer's Paintings
Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe (1500) • The Dresden Altarpiece (1496) • Madonna of the Pear (1512) • Christ Among the Doctors (1506) • Heller Altar (detail) (1508-1509) • Portrait of a Venetian Woman (1506-1507) • Lamentation for Christ (1500-1503) • Madonna and Child with the Pear (1526) • Paumgartner Altar (1503)
Albrecht Durer's Engravings & Etchings
Adam and Eve (1504) • Nativity (1504) • Large Horse (1505) • Sudarium Displayed by Two Angels (1513) • Madonna with the Pear (1511) • The Desperate Man (1515) • Small Horse (1505)
Woodcuts - Life Of The Virgin
Life of the Virgin: 11. The Adoration of the Magi (1501-1502) • Life of the Virgin: 9. The Adoration of the Shepherds. The Nativity (1504-1505) • Life of the Virgin:7. The Annunciation (1500-1502) • Life of the Virgin: 6. Marriage of the Virgin (1504)