Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve: heavenly bodies

Realising the potential of marketing in the 16th century, the painter engraves his details into the meticulous printIn the centuries that preceded the Renaissance, artists hardly ever depicted naked bodies. If they did, it was in finger-wagging, guilty scenes. Dürer’s celebrated print of 1504 straddles these two worlds, exulting antiquity’s pursuit of the perfect nude, but with plenty of medieval symbolism. Continue reading...