Der Sündenfall

Unknown artist

The artist copied Dürer’s wooden cut “Der Sündenfall,” part of his “Kleinen Passion,” designed in 1510 from the original page. The orientation of the template is clearly visible. The naked primordial couple stands, surrounded by each other closely, between high rising and densely growing trees, of which the tree of knowledge is the only fruit bearing more. The snake winds around the mighty trunk, the apple in the mouth. While Eve intervenes, she turns her back on the viewer. Adam’s hesitant mimic and gesture, on the other hand, is shown head-on. In the leaf, Dachs, Löwe and Wisent revolve, whose presence can be interpreted as an indication of medieval temperament theory. While there is no evidence of Dürer as the spiritual creator of the image idea, the empty paneled - sign Marcantonio Raimondis - is integrated into the representation on the lower right. Bartsch mentions three states of Raimondi’s sequence of passage after Dürer (cf. Bartsch XIV.401).