Adam and Eve (Expulsion from the Paradise)

D�rer’s Adam and Eve, with its emphasis on human beauty rather than mortal sin, caused a sensation. Available soon across the continent, the engraving became the definitive depiction of this theme. Artists from Lucas van Leyden and Jan Gossaert in the Netherlands to Raphael and Raimondi in Italy responded to it. Some merely replicated the scene while others consciously sought to devise their own alternatives.