The tell-tale tail of a parrot : Dürer's Adam and Eve

Author

Jaffe, Irma B.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Print collector's newsletter. 1993, Num. 2, Vol. 24, 52-53, 3 ill.

ISSN

0032-8537

Abstract (en)

Suggests that it was the discovery of the New World and descriptions of the new flora and fauna that explorers found there that caused Dürer's concentration on those subjects in works dated 1500-1503; and argues that the parrot and the primeval forest in the engraving of Adam and Eve (1504) signify the location of the Garden of Eden in the New World.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Prints and illustration -- Germany
• Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
• Prints
• Engraving
• Germany
• 1500-1600
• Adam and Eve
• Parrots
• Iconography
• Discovery of the New World (1492)
• Influence

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Estampe et illustration -- Allemagne
• Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
• Estampe
• Burin
• Allemagne
• 1500-1600
• Adam et Eve
• Perroquet
• Iconographie
• Découverte du Nouveau-Monde (1492)
• Influence

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00338596

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