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Adam and Eve (Cranach, Leipzig)

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Adam and Eve is a 1533 oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated on the rock at the bottom by Adam) and now in the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig,[1] to which it was donated by the Sternburg Foundation.[2]

It is one of a series of about thirty paintings by that artist showing the fall of man. The Museum der bildenden Künste also has a 1512 version by Cranach from the same series.[3]

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  1. ^ (in German) "RKD entry".
  2. ^ (in German) "Sternburg Foundation".
  3. ^ "Catalogue entry".