Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Gallery 350, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

By 1512

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo), also called Baccio della Porta (Italian (active Florence, Venice, and Rome), 1472–1517)

This painting is unfinished: the artist began to apply light tones over the sepia-colored underpainting but the figure of Adam remains a drawn form without tonal variations.

Gallery 350, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Date:

By 1512

Artist:

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo), also called Baccio della Porta (Italian (active Florence, Venice, and Rome), 1472–1517)

Medium:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

12 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (31.7 x 25.1 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 78

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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Gallery 350, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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