Adam and Eve - The Temptation and the Expulsion The panel depicting the “Temptation” and the two characters’ subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden, is a notable departure from presiding thoughts in Italy at the time over what type of fruit was the forbidden one. In the Vulgate, the Catholic Church’s official Latin translation of the Bible during the 16th century, the Tree of Knowledge is widely read as bearing apples. In Michelangelo’s fresco, the tree bears figs—a more Judaic interpretation of the text. (It should be noted that Genesis describes Adam and Eve as covering themselves with fig leaves upon their new awareness of nudity, so figs were definitely part of the action in some way.) Interestingly, figs would come up again in Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel, just at a lesser altitude. The artist’s infamous wall fresco depicting the “Last Judgment” is full of nude figures rather than traditionally clothed ones, and it is this brazen act of biblical revision that spurred the “Fig Leaf Campaign.” At the Council of Trent in 1563, members of the Catholic Church decreed that all lasciviousness depicted in religious art must be covered with carefully placed fig leaves. #arteducation #artyshmarty #buanarotti #ceiling #drawing #fresco #fineart #masterpiece #michaelangelo #painting #rome #canadaplace #religiousart #renaissance (at Vancouver Convention Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-FlJoPKcg/?utm_medium=tumblr
