Eva parente prima · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Eva parente prima
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. In the leaves of the tree, there are representations of the seven deadly sins. From left to right in the leaves, the figures represent wrath, gluttony, greed, pride, lust, envy and sloth. 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:18123
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18123_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Adam; Important Women; Famous Women; First Mother; Old Testament; Eve