Eve

Eve

Title

Eve

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

A full-length figure of Eve standing against a black background on a narrow strip of grass. Eve's right foot is positioned parallel to the picture plane, whereas her left foot is shown at right angles and points towards the viewer. In her left hand Eve holds a branch with leaves

A full-length figure of Eve standing against a black background on a narrow strip of grass. Eve's right foot is positioned parallel to the picture plane, whereas her left foot is shown at right angles and points towards the viewer. In her left hand Eve holds a branch with leaves covering her vulva and in her right hand she holds an apple from which she has alreaady taken a bite. The tree of knowledge has been cropped by the left edge of the panel. The serpent has coiled itself around a branch and moves towards Eve.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017, 90]
[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Production date
1528

Production date

1528

[Pendant dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 167 x 61 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 167 x 61 cm

  • [Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

Pendant signed and dated.

Signature / Dating

  • Pendant signed and dated.

  • [cda 2014]

Owner
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Repository
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Location
Florence
CDA ID
IT_GdU_1458
FR (1978) Nr.
FR194
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/IT_GdU_1458/

Provenance

  • private collection, collection of Cosimo III de' Medici, Florence, 1688 (accession date)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence
  • Convento di Monteoliveto fuori Porta San Frediano, Florence, 5-12-1942 (accession date)
  • Castel Giovo, Bolzano, San Leonardo
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 22-7-1945 (accession date)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence, 29-3-1951 (accession date)

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Exhibitions

Berlin 1937
Rome 2010, No. 41

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017 90, 91 14 Pl. p. 91
EditorFrancesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Fara 2017 58
AuthorGiovanni Maria Fara
TitleLe incisioni di Lucas Cranach il Vecchio agli Uffizi. Un percoso storico critico
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages48-59
Luca 2017 43, 45
AuthorFrancesca de Luca
TitleI volti della Riforma nelle collezioni granducali
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages42-47
Price 2017 22
AuthorDavid H. Price
TitleLucas Cranach e la Riforma
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages12-27
Coliva 2010 35
AuthorAnna Coliva
TitleLa presenza della Venere e Cupido che ruba il favo di miele di Cranach nella collezione di Scipione Borghese; The presence of Cranach's Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief in the Scipione Borghese Collection
Publicationin Anna Coliva, Bernhard Aikema, eds., Cranach l'altro rinascimento, a different Renaissance, Exhib. Cat. Rome
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2010
Pages34 - 37
Exhib. Cat. Rome 2010 256-259 No. 41 Pl. p. 257
EditorGalleria Borghese, Rome, Anna Coliva, Bernard Aikema
TitleCranach. L'altro rinascimento / a different renaissance, [Rome, Galleria Borghese 15 ottobre 2010 - 13 febbraio 2011]
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2010
Hinz 2010 A Fig. p. 86
AuthorBerthold Hinz
TitleLucas Cranach/ Andrea del Brescianino: Venere tedesca vs. Venere italiana; Lucas Cranach / Andrea del Brescianino: a German Venus vs. an italian Venus
Publicationin Anna Coliva, Bernhard Aikema, eds., Cranach l'altro rinascimento, a different Renaissance, Exhib. Cat. Rome
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2010
Pages86 - 97
Hinz 2010 B 45 40
AuthorBerthold Hinz
TitleAktmalerei bei Cranach. Ein neuer Geschäftszweig
Publicationin Guido Messling, ed., Die Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys, Exhib. Cat. Brussels
Place of PublicationBrussels
Year of Publication2010
Pages42-53
Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005 214, 215, 216 Fn. 19, 24 under No. 3
EditorHarald Marx, Karin Kolb, Ingrid Mössinger
TitleCranach Anlässlich der Ausstellung Cranach vom 13. November 2005 bis 12. März 2006 in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Schade 2003 18
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleBildhaftigkeit bei Cranach
Publicationin Heiz Spielmann, Werner Schade, eds., Lucas Cranach Glaube Mythologie und Maderne , Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003
Place of PublicationOstfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication2003
Pages12-21
Schoen 2001 201-203 Figs. 38, 39
AuthorChristian Schoen
TitleAlbrecht Dürer: Adam und Eva. Die Gemälde, ihre Geschichte und Rezeption bei Lucas Cranach d.Ä. und Hans Baldung Grien
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2001
Bonnet 1994 143
AuthorAnne-Marie Bonnet
TitleDer Akt im Werk Lucas Cranachs. Bedeutung und Spezialitat der "nackten Bilder" innerhalb der deutschen Renaissance-Malerei
Publicationin Claus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff, eds., Lucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken, Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994
Place of PublicationAugsburg, Coburg
Year of Publication1994
Pages139-149
Cat. Florence 1979 229 P460 Fig.
Authorn. a.
TitleCatalogo dei dipinti
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 194
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Posse 1942 60
AuthorHans Posse
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä.
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1942
Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937 30 069 Pl. 63
EditorStaatliche Museen, Berlin
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä. und Lucas Cranach d. J. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1937
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 163
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
Cat. Florence 1926
Authorn. a.
TitleCatalogo dei dipinti
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1926
Link https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/uffizi_dipinti1926/0005/image,info,thumbs
  • Eve, 1528

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Conservation History

Date1998

conservation treatment

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

  • conservation treatment by Karin Weber

Date1985

(UR 301) , SBAS FI

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

  • conservation treatment by Giuseppe Rosi

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