Rijksmuseum

Adam and Eve

anonymous

Date

c. 1530

Medium

bronze (metal)

Culture

Austria

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Around 1500, bronze casting was still in its infancy north of the Alps. While Italian bronze-casters crafted their modelli in wax and clay, Netherlandish and German sculptors still worked from carved wooden models. Their figures – like this pair (which comes from Stift Heilingenkreuz, a Cistercian abbey near Vienna) – thus look rather stiff.

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