Cy sensuit hystoire de eve qui sut la premiere et tres ancienne mere de tout humain lignage · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit hystoire de eve qui sut la premiere et tres ancienne mere de tout humain lignage
Subject: Eve; Important Women; Famous Women; Old Testament; Adam
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Garden of Eden
Description: This illumination depicts Eve sitting down in the Garden of Eden. She is illustrated holding the forbidden apple from the Tree of Good and Evil. She is looking at the serpent who seduced her into taking the apple. The Garden itself appears to be a contained area with walls and an entrance door to the right of the image. 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: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18416
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18416_OBJ.jpg