The Creation and Fall of Man
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Maker
1474-1515
Title
The Creation and Fall of Man
Date of Production
1513-1514
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
Height: 56.2 cm (panel)
Width: 165.5 cm (panel)
Width: 165.5 cm (panel)
Object Number
P.1966.GP.6
Mode of Acquisition
Gambier-Parry, bequest, 1966
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Label Text
The biblical story unfolds in four episodes from left to right: after creating the animals, God gives life to Adam and shapes Eve from Adam’s rib. Finally, a serpent with a human face tempts them to taste a fruit from the tree God had forbidden them to touch. This will lead to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
This is one of three scenes commissioned by the Italian banker Giovanmaria Benintendi. They were designed to be set into the decorative panelling of a room in his family’s palace in Florence. The landscape, with its rolling hills and river, recalls the countryside outside the city.
This is one of three scenes commissioned by the Italian banker Giovanmaria Benintendi. They were designed to be set into the decorative panelling of a room in his family’s palace in Florence. The landscape, with its rolling hills and river, recalls the countryside outside the city.
Provenance
Bought in Italy by Irvine; William Buchanan; William Coningham sale, Christie's, 9.vi.1849 (lot 44 - as Albertinelli); bought in, and acquired the same year by Thomas Gambier Parry through Colnaghi's; by descent to Mark Gambier-Parry; Gambier-Parry Bequest 1966
Exhibition History
Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence, National Gallery of Canada & Ottowa & Canada, 27/05/2005-05/09/2005
The Gambier-Parry Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1967
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