Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (disambiguation)

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The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden and the Expulsion from Paradise refer to the Biblical account of the ejection of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden as part of the Fall of man.

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"Expulsion from the Garden of Eden" and "Expulsion from Paradise" are the names or subjects of various fine art works:

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The Life of Adam and Eve, also known in its Greek version as the Apocalypse of Moses, is a Jewish apocryphal group of writings. It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. It provides more detail about the Fall of Man, including Eve's version of the story. Satan explains that he rebelled when God commanded him to bow down to Adam. After Adam dies, he and all his descendants are promised a resurrection.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fall of man</span> Adam and Eves loss of innocent obedience in the Abrahamic religions

The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating the fruit of the tree of life and becoming immortal.

<i>Children of Eden</i> Musical

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<i>Expulsion from the Garden of Eden</i> 1425 fresco by Masaccio

The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden is a fresco by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Masaccio. The fresco is a single scene from the cycle painted around 1425 by Masaccio, Masolino and others on the walls of the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. It depicts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden, from the biblical Book of Genesis chapter 3, albeit with a few differences from the canonical account.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam and Eve</span> First man and woman in Abrahamic creation myth

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. They also provide the basis for the doctrines of the fall of man and original sin, which are important beliefs in Christianity, although not held in Judaism or Islam.

<i>Paradise and Hell</i> Diptych panels

Paradise and Hell is the left and right panels of a minor diptych by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch based on The Haywain Triptych. The image is oil on panel and is 135 x 45 cm. It was painted c. 1510 and is now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Paradise is depicted darker than in the Haywain, which possibly represents the darkness of original sin.

<i>Adam and Eve</i> (Dürer) 1504 engraving and 1507 paintings by Dürer

Adam and Eve is the title of two famous works in different media by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist of the Northern Renaissance: an engraving made in 1504, and a pair of oil-on-panel paintings completed in 1507. The 1504 engraving depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, surrounded by several symbolic animals. The engraving transformed how Adam and Eve were popularly depicted in art.

<i>The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man</i> 1615 painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man or The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (figures) and Jan Brueghel the Elder. It is housed in the Mauritshuis art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The painting depicts the moment just before the consumption of forbidden fruit and the fall of man.

<i>Expulsion from the Garden of Eden</i> (Cole) Painting by Thomas Cole

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden was painted in 1828 by English-born American painter Thomas Cole. It belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is on display in their Waleska Evans James Gallery. This landscape painting exemplifies the style of the Hudson River School, which was a group of American landscape painters that Thomas Cole is credited with founding, and is knotted. On the lower left part of the cliff, Cole signed his name as "T Cole".

<i>Expulsion from Paradise</i> (Pontormo) Painting by Pontormo

Expulsion from Paradise or the Expulsion of Adam and Eve is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, now in the Uffizi in Florence, whose Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe also has a preparatory drawing for it. Its dating is also uncertain and varies between c.1519 and c.1543, but is held to be c.1535 by the Uffizi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coats of skin</span> The coats provided for Adam and Eve by the God

In the biblical story of Adam and Eve, coats of skin were the aprons provided to Adam and Eve by God when they fell from a state of innocent obedience under Him to a state of guilty disobedience.