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MEMLING, Hans: Adam and Eve

🖼 Adam and Eve, c. 1485
Oil on oak (each)
69.3 × 17.3 cm
Vienna, Austria

Naked figures stand in a lush garden, rendered with meticulous detail and luminous oil paint characteristic of Flemish precision. Memling's 1485 panel captures humanity's innocence before the Fall, blending Northern Renaissance naturalism with theological narrative central to medieval Christian art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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