One part of two, Adam and Eve.
Eve, the ancestral mother. Through her eating of the fruit, sinful but sweet-tasting, the human body became the source of knowledge and pleasure, but also subject to death. Baldungs pair of pictures (originally part of a series completed by Judith with the severed head of Holofernes and Venus and Cupid) clearly focuses on the erotic content of the story. Sin already done, the ancestors cover their loins with leaves, but their movements are wanton rather than shy. Evil has triumphed. Adam is tormented by lust: his body convulses, and he presses his right hand to the place of his missing rib. His locks of hair form horns, his lips are parted, and his face is covered with a beard and mustache - all features of contemporary depictions of satyrs. While Adam is depicted as a victim, Eve is the active temptress, unabashedly enjoying the power of her desirable beauty. The smile that plays around her lips reflects complacency; her gaze and every movement of hers are focused on the man's body, as if to take possession of it.
Hans Baldung also known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baden-Württemberg, c. 1484/1485 - Strasbourg, Alsace, September 1545) was a German Renaissance painter and maker of woodcuts.
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