/internal/media/dispatcher/143742/fullThe Fall of Man1521[Meister IP]Meister IPPearwood, unpolychromedAdam tenderly places his arm around Eve, who seductively offers him the forbidden fruit. On the right edge, we can see humanity’s original ancestors being expelled from paradise in punishment. In this work, the biblical story of the Fall was probably only a pretext for depicting naked figures in a landscape. Intricately carved with the most delicate of knives, this small panel was presumably an early cabinet or collector’s piece. In the spirit of the emerging Renaissance, this was valued primarily for its artistic quality. Reflecting this, its anonymous creator has signed it with his monogram on the lower left. Sculpturehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3622/rdf