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Adam and Eve (Fall)
Ludwig Krug1514
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This small, delicately executed relief depicting the Fall—one of the most popular iconographies from around 1500 onward—is fascinating for its interlocking of gestures and gazes, which produces an erotic tension. Adam is holding the bitten apple. His action is “aped” by the monkey, a symbol of sinful desire that depicts the appetites of the flesh as the cause of the Fall.
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- Title: Adam and Eve (Fall)
- Creator: Ludwig Krug
- Date Created: 1514
- Physical Dimensions: 14.9 × 9 cm
- Technique and Material: Solnhofen limestone
- Provenance: From the Brandenburgisch-Preussische Kunstkammer
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
- Inv.-No.: 805
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815614
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/skulpturensammlung-und-museum-fuer-byzantinische-kunst/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinisch Kunst/ Antje Voigt; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 68 / Hans-Ulrich Kessler
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1488–90 Nuremberg–1532 Nuremberg
- Artist Biography: Krug, who was the most important goldsmith of the German Renaissance after Wenzel Jamnitzer, was also active as a painter, graphic artist, and sculptor in small formats. He is sometimes credited with making the frame for Albrecht Dürer’s The Adoration of the Trinity (1508). Krug’s earliest signed works date from 1514, however. His oeuvre of prints was influenced by Dürer, Martin Schongauer, and Lucas van Leyden.
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