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The Garden of Eden
Lucas Cranach the Elder1530
Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums
Dresden, Germany
As described in the Old Testament, Cranach depicts paradise as a beautiful Garden of Eden filled with animals, who live peacefully with one another. The biblical stories of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2-3) are retold in a number of simultaneous scenes, spanning the time of their creation to their expulsion form paradise.
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Details
- Title: The Garden of Eden
- Creator Lifespan: 1472 - 1553
- Creator Nationality: German
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Weimar
- Creator Birth Place: Kronach
- Date Created: 1530
- Physical Dimensions: w1180 x h800 cm
- Painter: Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Collection: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Photograph: Hans Peter Klut/Elke Estel
- External Link: http://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/de/contents/show?id=246924
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