Art Analysis Of Albrecht Durer's The Fall Of Man

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The German Renaissance provided the society present in Northern Europe at the time unique advances in cultural and artistic practices alike. Such movements also gave creatives, especially those involved in artistic practices the opportunity to flourish and develop as artists at such a pivotal time in history. Of course the artists represented during this time period each had their differences and expressed their practices in different ways, some better in observation and others in paint or design, but if one were to represent the prototype of an artist during the German Renaissance it would of been the visionary that is Albrecht Durer***. Arguably, one of his most capturing pieces was an engraving titled The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve),

The Fall of Man was also an opportunity to introduce an audience to something they had not seen before, and that was the classical human form as inspired by Greek sculpture, on print of course. In this piece Adam and Eve are placed in the midst of a forrest, characterized through the abundance of plant and animal life, yet there is more to the story to be told and that is that they are considered to be nearly perfect in form. Both Adam and Eve appear to be nude and facing their audience standing in a counterpoise. Through the placement of the hips and shoulders it is clear that their bodies are at rest, yet capable of movement. (khan academy) Moreover, if one were to study the traces of lines throughout the presented biblical bodies one would observer the results of an magnificent and challenging analytical and observant soul, capable of producing what would of been the external structures of the two in their most classical