Eve

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Monnaie de Paris (workshop / studio)
,
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon (medalists)

Date

1906

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Medallist Frédéric de Vernon exhibited this arch plaque at the Salon of the Medal during the 1910 World Fair in Brussels. The obverse depicts Eve standing under the apple tree. The reverse shows the snake writhing in the tree. The plaque also exists in larger sizes.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Monnaie de Paris , Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon
Types plaques (flat objects) AAT, kunstplaquette
Category medals
Material bronze
Dimensions 80 x 31.2 mm
Object number 1909-GG-1
Description
Subject religious symbolism AAT
Tags Old Testament Iconclass, Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass, Adam and Eve in paradise (before the Fall) Iconclass, snakes Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-GG-1
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8179/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1909-GG-1
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