On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00429
- Author
- Titian [Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano] (Italian)
- Title
- Adam and Eve
- Chronology
- Ca. 1550
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 240 cm x 186 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
Adam appears seated. He tries to
keep Eve from taking the prohibited
apple that the serpent offers her.
The scene is based on the Old
Testament story (Genesis 3, 1-6) of
Man's fall from grace when, after
disobeying God's orders, Adam and
Eve were expulsed from
Paradise.
The anthropomorphic figures — the
serpent, the fox and a boy-snake
offering an apple— symbolize
evil.
Among the compositional referents
for this work are Raphael's frescos
at the Stanza della Signatura in
the Vatican, and the engraving on
the same subject by Albrecht
Dürer.
This work belonged to Antonio Pérez
and entered the Royal Collection in
1585. In 1628 and 1629, Rubens made
a copy that is also in the Prado
Museum (P1692).
