Adam and Eve (Tintoretto) explained

Adam and Eve (Italian: Adamo ed Eva), also known as The Temptation of Adam, Original Sin, and The Fall of Man, may refer to either of two similar works by the Venetian painter Tintoretto: an oil painting in the collection of the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, made around 1550–1553; and a panel in the ceiling of the Upper Hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, made around 1577–1578.

First version

The Temptation of Adam
Height Metric:	150
Width Metric:	220
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
Museum:	Gallerie dell'Accademia
City:	Venice

For the Scuola della Trinità, Tintoretto painted four or five pictures depicting subjects taken from the Book of Genesis, having reference to the creation of the world; of which two are preserved untouched, and now hang on either side of Titian's Assumption in the Academy at Venice.^[1] These are The Death of Abel and Adam and Eve, of which William Roscoe Osler writes:

John Ruskin expresses his admiration in terms of enthusiasm:

The second picture, representing Eve in the act of offering the apple to Adam, has been admired for the beauty of the flesh painting.^[2]

Second version

The Fall of Man
Height Metric:	265
Width Metric:	370
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
Museum:	Scuola Grande di San Rocco
City:	Venice

Tintoretto painted another version for the ceiling of the Upper Hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Ian Holbourn calls the work "sketchy but very strong";^[3] Evelyn March Phillipps describes the painting thus:

See also

• Fall of man
• Original sin

Sources

• Bensusan, S. L. (1908). Tintoretto. Hare, T. Leman (ed.). Masterpieces in Colour. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. pp. 36, 69.
• Holborn, J. B. Stroughton (1907). Jacopo Robusti, Called Tintoretto. Williamson, G. C. (ed.). The Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 31, 32, 55, 101, 124, 126.
• Krischel, Roland (2000). Meister der italienischen Kunst. Tintoretto (Jacopo Tintoretto, 1519–1594). Translated by Bell, Anthea. Germany: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 45.
• Newton, Eric (1972). Tintoretto. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 46, 47, 78, 80, 82.
• Osler, W. Roscoe (1892). Tintoretto. Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. pp. 24, 58, 92.
• Phillipps, Evelyn March (1911). Tintoretto. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 44, 45, 76.
• Ruskin, John (1877). Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice. London and Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 10.
• Stearns, Frank Preston (1894). Life and Genius of Jacopo Robusti, Called Tintoretto. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 110, 111, 150, 163, 295.
• "The Temptation of Adam". Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

Notes and References

1. Holborn 1907, p. 31.
2. Bensusan 1908, p. 69.
3. Holborn 1907, p. 124.