God Judging Adam

God Judging Adam

The Divine as the central motif, with the Horse, the Sun and the Moon and Fire in a secondary part. From The Met, open access.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

  1. 1The Divinecentral motif as it reads here: The Judge in the Sun
  2. 2The Horsesecondary motif
  3. 3The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif
  4. 4Firesecondary motif

An aged God seated in a disc of fire and light points down at Adam, who stands bowed before the flaming horses of the chariot; the Divine as the central motif, the Horse, the Sun and Fire by eye. By eye

Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.

Record

Source
Rights
CC0. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access programme places its images and data of public-domain works in the public domain worldwide, for any use.
Restoration
None. A 1400 by 1144 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Artist
William Blake, London, 1757 to 1827
Checked
the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, the medium, accession 16.38. The title is theirs. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “God Judging Adam”, William Blake, ca. 1795. thesymbolica.com/work/god-judging-adam/