The creation of Eve who emerges from behind Adam

The creation of Eve who emerges from behind Adam

The Divine as the central motif, with the Hand 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 Creator
  2. 2The Handsecondary motif

Adam lies asleep on the ground at the left; Eve rises from behind him with her hands raised; a bearded figure in a long cloak stands at the right with one hand lifted towards her; the Divine as the central motif, the Hand 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 1250 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Artist
Giulio Bonasone, Bologna and Rome, active about 1531 to 1576; an engraver who worked after Raphael, Michelangelo and Parmigianino, and after his own designs
Checked
the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, the medium, accession 53.600.4225. The title is theirs. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The creation of Eve who emerges from behind Adam”, Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1530 to 1570. thesymbolica.com/work/the-creation-of-eve/