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Adam and Eve
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Around 1500, bronze casting was still in its infancy north of the Alps. While Italian bronze-casters crafted their modelli in wax and clay, Netherlandish and German sculptors still worked from carved wooden models. Their figures – like this pair (which comes from Stift Heilingenkreuz, a Cistercian abbey near Vienna) – thus look rather stiff.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineAdam and Eve. c. 1530. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
