Cy sensuit histoire de eve qui sut la premiere et tres anciene mere de tout humain linguage · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de eve qui sut la premiere et tres anciene mere de tout humain linguage
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Old Testament; Adam; Eve
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Garden of Eden
Description: This illumination depicts Eve standing in the Garden of Eden. She is illustrated standing in front of the Tree of Good and Evil while looking at the serpent who persuades her to take an apple from the tree. The Garden itself appears to be a contained area with a fenced wall behind Eve. Eating the apple caused the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. As a protector of the garden, there is a cherub dressed in white holding a sword above Eve’s head as it expels her from the garden. Boccaccio explains that as the world’s first mother to us all, Eve is worthy of remembrance and praise.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19802
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19802_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Old Testament; Adam; Eve