Adam and Eve
Date1504
MediumEngraving on paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (24.8 × 19.1 cm)
Framed: 22 9/16 × 16 5/8 × 1/2 inches (57.3 × 42.2 × 1.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Julianna F. Waring.
Object number1972.23.8
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextA pivotal figure in the Northern European Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer was a German painter and printmaker who introduced Italian Renaissance ideals of form and perspective to northern European art. Dürer is also credited with technical and stylistic advances in printmaking, having pushed the woodcut and engraving processes to new heights of refinement and complexity.
Adam and Eve blends the northern tendency toward meticulous surface detail with the concern for ideal proportion and linear perspective characteristic of the Italian Renaissance. The figures of Adam and Eve are informed by classical Greco-Roman sculpture. The setting for this ancient Biblical scene, however —a dense forest populated by a variety of closely observed creatures—is wholly northern.
