In this suite of engravings, the Utrecht-based painter Abraham Bloemaert has depicted various key scenes from the Book of Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve live in harmony with each other, the world and nature. Here they are protected from mortality, work and knowledge. After the Fall, they have to take care of their own garden and shape their own world. Bloemaert makes that transition very clear. Under a stormy sky, the couple is expelled from the lush, sunny garden, into a rugged landscape, where Adam is shown digging and Eve spinning wool. Bloemaert thus emphasises the link between the expulsion from Paradise and the need to perform hard labour. The Garden of Eden is thus linked to the dawn of human history.
Title
Adam en Eva in het Paradijs (de geschiedenis van de eerste ouders van de mens)
Artist
Abraham Bloemaert (ontwerper) (Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht)
Jan Saenredam (graveur) (Zaandam 1565 - 1607 Assendelft)
Dating
1604
Material and technique
Object number
12731
Object type
Acquisition
aankoop 1960
Dimensions
hoogte (beeld) 27.5 cm
breedte (beeld) 19.7 cm
Inscriptions and markings
- signatuur en opschrift onder in beeld rechts van het midden: A. Bloemaert Inue.// J. Saenredam sculp. 2
- onderschrift 1 l.o. beeld: Iusserat auricomo nemus omne grauescere foetu // Rerum opifex, hominem silvas habitare beatas,
- onderschrift 2 r.o. beeld: Et colere, et legem ruris servare fruendi // Poße datum; rapta est per devia prona voluntas // TSchreve. (TS in monogram)
More of the same motive
Remarks
nr. 2 uit een serie van 6 gravures voorstellende "De Geschiedenis van onze eerste ouders" (inv. nrs. 12730, 12731, 12732, 12734, 12736 en 12738). De hele serie bevindt zich in de collectie van het Centraal Museum.
Documentation
- Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon : dritter Band : Nachträge und Verzeichnis der Monogramme, auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearb. von Alfred von Wurzbach, (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 4; 57, 1994)
Exhibitions
Persistent url
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