Eve after the Fall

Museum record 16963: Eve after the Fall by Auguste Rodin. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Eve owes its genesis to The Gates of Hell , the artist’s major commission from the French government in 1880. The associations posed by the sculptural portals of that project led Rodin back to the art of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Michelangelo, particularly their depiction of biblical stories from the book of Genesis. A number of elements from the Gates —such as The Thinker , Adam , and Eve —gradually evolved into independent works. In particular, Eve recalls the most sculptural of Re…