1540
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
God Forbids to Eat from the Tree is a 1540 ink by Heinrich Aldegrever, a Northern Renaissance work, depicting Clothed Male, Naked Female, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows a scene from the Bible, with a tree and figures in the background. It's an etching, which is a way of making prints by carving into metal plates. The details in this etching are quite small, which suggests the artist was skilled at this technique. You can learn more about this technique by looking up the technique: etching.
Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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