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Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve |
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1526, detail.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Courtauld Institute of Art will feature Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranachs Adam and Eve, on view from 21 June 23 September. The Courtauld will hold the first exhibition in Britain devoted to the German Renaissance painter, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1555). The exhibition focuses on the Courtaulds great Adam and Eve, painted in 1526. This subject was ideally suited to Cranachs gifts as a portrayer of landscape, animals and the female nude. Nor was it one to which either Protestant or Catholic theologians could object.
Cranach and his workshop made over fifty depictions of Eves temptation of Adam in Paradise with the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The Courtauld Adam and Eve is the only one of his paintings not to follow one of the two basic iconographic interpretations which Cranach developed for this story. Using the evidence provided by technical investigation and drawings, the exhibition will track the process of its making. The paintings possible meanings for sixteenth-century viewers will also be investigated. Adam and Eve offers particularly close comparisons with a group of secular depictions of temptation and beauty, including the National Gallerys Venus and Cupid and the Gettys A Faun and His Family. The exhibition will reunite these paintings for the first time in several hundred years.
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