De heva parente prima · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De heva parente prima
Subject: Creation stories; Christianity; Adam and Eve; Eve
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Garden of Eden
Description: This engraving depicts Adam and Eve in the forest. Eve is being offered a forbidden apple by the viper, which is illustrated as being coiled around the tree in the centre of the image. They are naked but have their genitals covered by leaves. Animals surround them. The date of the engraving is known because of the date stamp in one of the trees in the background on the left-hand side. Eve was the most ancient mother, according to Christian tradition, and mother of us all, which is why she is the first in the text.
Image Creator: Jakob Kallenberg (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut engraving
Identifier: mta:18512
Language: lat
Source Name: Ioannis Boccatii de Certaldo Insigne Opvs de Claris Mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1539 Apiarius
Image: mta_18512_OBJ.png