Symbolica
The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Adam

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

Muller (Swiss or German), mid-17th century. Stained glass.

Stained glass panel; the maker is recorded by the Met as Muller, Swiss or German.

CC0, Met Open Access · Web copy 1364 by 1084 px · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32.100.342

Key · 3 motifs

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 Name in Glory
  2. 2The Horsesecondary motif
  3. 3The Lionsecondary motif

The picture

The Creation of Adam in a Swiss panel: the Creator is present only as the Hebrew Name in rays of light breaking from the clouds, Adam sits among the animals, two white horses and a lion at the right, a German inscription below; the Divine as the central motif, the Horse and the Lion by eye. Earlier tagged for the Hand in error: no hand is shown. 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.

Also carrying the Divine

7 works, 4 with it as the central motif. The symbol.

Also carrying the Horse

6 works. The symbol.

Also carrying the Lion

6 works. The symbol.

In the same series

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access

Record

Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32.100.342
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 1364 by 1084 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access
Artist
Muller, glass painter, Swiss or German, seventeenth century, as the Met records the name
Titled here
The Creation of Adam. The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues it as: The Creation of Adam (one of a set of four)
Checked
the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, the medium, accession 32.100.342. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery.
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Symbolica, “The Creation of Adam”, Muller (Swiss or German), mid-17th century. thesymbolica.com/work/the-creation-of-adam/