A sensual image of mysticism and nudity lays on the canvas of Henry Fuseli. It is his painting of Adam and Eve created in the years of 1796 to 1799. The painting that is viewable today in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts located at Stanford University; unfortunatley is not the orginal painting created by Henry Fuseli. His work Adam and Eve was orginally named Adam and Eve First Discoverd by Satan and part of a larger collection of paintings all done in Oil on Canvas. This particular scene was painted on a 13 x 10 canvas and cut down to what was considered a more salable and smaller painting size. This eliminated Satan from the image leaving just Adam and Eve as the substance of the art piece. (Cantor Center,)
Henry Fuseli was an acommplished Swiss painter, writer and art historian; this is often over shadowed by his other acoomplishments. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1741 with the name Johann Heinrich Füssli. (Abdullah et al.) Johann Caspar Fussli, Henry's father, was a city clerk who was a devoted lover of art which in part influenced Henry Fuseli. In 1761 he was ordained a minister due to his fathers wishes after attending Caroline College. He studied literature, asthetics, greek and latin under Johann Jakob Bodmer. In the year 1762 Fuseli and a fellow classmate and friend Johann Kasper Lavater issued a pamphlet accusing and exposing a magistrate Felix Grebel of being corrupt and a crook. To avoid repercussions for his action Fuseli was forced to flee the country and ended up in Germany. Here he met a Swiss art theorist and mathematician Johann Georg Sulzer. Sulzer introduced Fuseli to the life of philosophy, literature and art after his attempts of being a writer. Fuseli assisted in the pro...
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Written in 1818, the latter stages of the Gothic literature movement, at face value this novel embodies all the key characteristics of the Gothic genre. It features the supernatural, ghosts and an atmosphere of horror and mystery. However a closer reading of the novel presents a multifaceted tale that explores
Author Jonathan Swift states, “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others”. Known as the greatest painter of his time, Masaccio, the brilliant artist, produces artwork with purity and language. Through Masaccio’s detailed artwork, The Expulsion of Eden, constructs a painting bursting with emotion that touches the viewer. The story of Adam and Eve depicts two people of opposite gender, and their journey through discovering the root of guilt, and the consequences of knowledge. After Eve (and eventually Adam) eats the attractive forbidden fruit from the tree of life - being tempted by the serpent, Adam and Eve are forever punished from the Garden of Eden, liberating both from innocence. Due to Masaccio's genius paintwork, he portrays the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden with precise detail and emotion that matches and, in some parts, enhances the actual Biblical story.
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The Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 is a two piece fresco painting on the Sistine Chapel in Italy. The tree located in the middle of the fresco with the green serpent separates the two pieces. This painting tells a story out of the Book of Genesis about the fall of Adam and Eve and removal of Adam and Eve out the Garden of Eden.
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Word by word, gothic literature is bound to be an immaculate read. Examining this genre for what it is could be essential to understanding it. “Gothic” is relating to the extinct East Germanic language, people of which known as the Goths. “Literature” is defined as a written work, usually with lasting “artistic merit.” Together, gothic literature combines the use of horror, death, and sometimes romance. Edgar Allan Poe, often honored with being called the king of horror and gothic poetry, published “The Fall of House Usher” in September of 1839. This story, along with many other works produced by Poe, is a classic in gothic literature. In paragraph nine in this story, one of our main characters by the name of Roderick Usher,
It is impossible to taste the sweet without having first tasted the sour. This is one of the many lessons found within Genesis 2.0 and more specifically the story of Adam and Eve. It is also from this twisted tale of betrayal and deceit that we gain our knowledge of mankind?s free will, and God?s intentions regarding this human capacity. There is one school of thought which believes that life is mapped out with no regard for individual choice while contrary belief tells us that mankind is capable of free will and therefore has control over hisown life and the consequences of his actions. The story of Adam and Eve and the time they spent in ?paradise? again and again points to the latter as the truth. Confirming that God not only gave mankind the ability to think for himself but also the skills needed to take responsibility for those thoughts and the actions that they produced.
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