Von Eua Capitulum primum · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Eua Capitulum primum
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:25884
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_25884_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Eve; Adam and Eve; Sin; Important Women