The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Masaccio1425Fresco
ArtistMasaccio
Year1425
MediumFresco
LocationBrancacci Chapel, Florence

About The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Among the first nudes painted since antiquity with anatomical accuracy. The raw emotion of shame and despair is unprecedented. The angel above drives them out with a sword. Cosimo de Medici ordered fig leaves added, removed in the 1980s restoration.

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