-Influenced by classical sculpture; Adam looks like the Apollo Belvedere, and Eve looks like Medici Venus -Italian massing of forms, which he learned from his Italian trips -Ideal image of humans before the Fall of Man -Contrapposto of figures from the Italian Renaissance, in turn also based on classical Greek art -Northern European devotion to detail
--Four humors are represented in the animals: cat(angry), rabbit(energetic), elk(melancholic), ox(lethargic); the four humors were kept in balance before the Fall of Man the humors fell out of balance after the successful temptation of the serpent -The mouse represents Satan -The parrot is a symbol of cleverness -Adam tries to dissuade Eve; he grasps the mountain ash, a tree from which snakes recoil. -Prominent placement of the artist’s signature indicates the rising status of his occupation
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