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Fall of Man (van der Goes)

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Original – The Fall of Man from the left panel of the Vienna Diptych by the Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes. Painted in the second half of the 15th century, it shows Serpent as a bipedal salamander-like creature because it was assumed that the serpent could walk before God's curse compelled it to crawl and eat dust. Such depiction of the Serpent was introduced into art in the late 13th century and was later generally abandoned by the Renaissance artists.

Reason

This particular Fall of Man is interesting because of salamander-like bipedal tempting Serpent, which in later depictions would become the ordinary snake we got used to. I haven't spotted a good digitization of the right panel, though.

Articles in which this image appears

Vienna Diptych

FP category for this image

Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Hugo van der Goes

• Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 10:44, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - One of the most famous artworks in art history. ^{(can't we fix a better scan of the Vienna Diptych right side?)}Hafspajen (talk) 11:03, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - CorinneSD (talk) 18:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - The northern Renaissance was way ahead of its time. Étienne Dolet (talk) 23:20, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - per nom.--Godot13 (talk) 01:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 15:02, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support But is Eve supposed to be pregnant or just chubby? Rreagan007 (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^Chubby...Hafspajen (talk) 08:32, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^{"It's not the apple in the tree that's the problem, it's the pair on the ground." Sca (talk) 14:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)}

Promoted File:Hugo van der Goes - The Fall of Man and The Lamentation - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:45, 7 March 2015 (UTC)