The knowledge of good and evil, and the consequences of that knowledge, with Adam and Eve and the serpent. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.

  • Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
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1583
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Border decorations show the arts (of agriculture, music, mathematics etc.) which have arisen since Adam and Eve tasted of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; Adam holding a threshing flail, Eve, holding a distaff, and the snake with an apple in its mouth

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Antwerpiae [Antwerp] : Joann. Sadler excud, 1583.

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1 print : engraving ; image 18.3 x 25.2 cm

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Boni et mali scientia. & quid ex horum cognitione, a condito mundo succraeverit declaratio ... J. Sadeler auct. & sculptore ; Martin de Vos figuravit ; Joann. Sadler excud. Antwerpiae

References note

Wolfgang Harms, 'Das pythagoreische Y auf illustrierten Flugblättern des 17. Jahrhunderts', Antike und Abendland, 1975, 21: 97–110, espec. pp. 100–101

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Wellcome Collection 46961i

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