Getting started with the collection:
Adam and Eve
anonymous, c. 1530
Around 1500, bronze casting was still in its infancy north of the Alps. While Italian bronze-casters crafted their modelli in wax and clay, Netherlandish and German sculptors still worked from carved wooden models. Their figures – like this pair (which comes from Stift Heilingenkreuz, a Cistercian abbey near Vienna) – thus look rather stiff.
- Artwork typefigure
- Object numberBK-17241-A
- Dimensionsheight 71 cm x weight 45.5 kg