Adam and Eve by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer.
Completed in 1507, the work followed a 1504 copper engraving by Durer on
the same subject, one which offered Durer the opportunity to depict the ideal
human figure. Painted in Nuremberg soon after his return from Venice, the panels
were influenced by Italian art. Durer's observations on his second trip to Italy
provided him with new approaches to portraying the human form. Here, he depicts
Adam and Eve at human scale—the first full-scale nude subjects in German
painting.
Adam and Eve's first home was the Prague Castle, the property of collector
Rudolf II. During theThirty Years' War, armies plundered the castle and the
panels came to be owned by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. His daughter, Christina,
gave the work to Philip IV of Spain in 1654. Later King Charles III ordered in
1777 that the painting be hidden in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San
Fernando. It arrived at its current home, Madrid's Museo del Prado, in 1827, but
was not publicly displayed until 1833.
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