Chiesa Nuova, Assisi, Italy

Unlike prelapsarian images, the painting gives the kneeling Eve a mess of tangled, ratty hair and an unattractive expression. Oddly, Adam seems to have escaped the physical marks of sin. He is still standing and does not even have a fig leaf. The gesture of his right hand seems to reflect his words, "The woman whom you put here with me — she gave me fruit from the tree." Perhaps the artist's intention was to show Adam as he was before God pronounced his judgment on him.

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