23/05/2025
This masterpiece by the Master of Embroidered Foliage recalls the turn of the 16th century.
This idyllic world is a seductive environment for the n**e figures of Adam and Eve. Their intimacy is maliciously and graphically hidden. Yet beneath the apparent religious morality, this work must have reached a private space. Far from any obscene considerations, the lucky commissioner of this painting could appreciate the delicate representation of bodies tending towards realism: he is therefore already forgiven ... since the painter has taken care to illustrate, with repentant gaze, apple in fist and tempting snake in background, the non-respect of God’s laws!
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Teatrum Mundi
Moral questions in Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries
Until July 31th 2025
Geneva Gallery
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The Master of the Embroidered Foliage
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Circa 1500
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