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Abraham Entertaining the Angels by Rembrandt van Rijn Abraham Entertaining the Angels by Rembrandt van Rijn  
         

Adam and Eve by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn, Adam and Eve (detail), 1638, etching, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection 1943.3.7102

  Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve (detail), 1504, engraving, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Horace Gallatin 1949.1.18

 

 

Rembrandt's artistic goals are different: he focuses on the human emotions leading to the fall. His Adam and Eve are not idealized; their faces and bodies are lumpish and imperfect, drawn with strokes that emphasize bulges and knobby limbs. They are shown with loose hair falling in twisted coils. Rembrandt conveys their indecision, temptation, and fear through his eloquently drawn forms.



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