De nuestra primera madre Eua · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De nuestra primera madre Eua
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Garden of Eden
Description: This engraving depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve is illustrated on the right side of the image taking an apple from the Tree of Good and Evil. The snake encouraging Eve to take the apple is depicted coiled around the tree. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Eve as the first chapter in his book as she is the first mother of us all.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:26325
Language: spa
Source Name: De Las Mujeres Ilustres [On Famous Women]
Parent Collection: 1494 Mujeres Ilustres; 1494 Mujeres Ilustres
Image: mta_26325_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Christianity; Creation; The First Sin; Adam and Eve