The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation
1544
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1544
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation is a 1544 oil by Augustus Cordus, a Mannerism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a scene of Adam and Eve in a garden. It's an old work from 1544. The artist used oil on panel to create it. The painting has many details, like trees and animals. It tells a story from the Bible. The story is about the first humans on earth. You can learn more about this style by looking up the technique of glazing.
John Warne Gates (d. 1911), Chicago and New York; by descent to his widow, Dellora Baker Gates (d. 1918); by descent to her niece Dellora Angell Norris, St. Charles, Ill.; on loan to the AIC on her behalf from her father, R. F. Angell, from 1923, as by Albrecht Dürer [registrar’s receipt, May 18, 1923]; given by her to the AIC, 1970.
W.A.P., “The Angell Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17 (1923), pp. 51–52. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 167, no. 2220. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 190, no. 2360.23. Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 38, no. 97, p. 101. “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October–December 1970,” Art Quarterly 34 (1971), pp. 249, 260 (ill.).…
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