Mors de la Pomme, After the Fall
After the Fall
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Holbein: After the Fall
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Adam and Eve are out in the wilderness to eat their bread in the sweat of their brow.
It's not just "Paradise lost", they also seem to have lost the clothes that God gave them, before exiling them
(Genesis 3:21-23).
The naked couple are visibly embarrassed by Death breathing down their necks.
Holbein (picture to the right) has chosen to let Death assist Adam in tilling the ground, »When Adam delved and Eve span«.
Genesis 3:21, Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
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Genesis 3:23, Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Eve
For the sin we have committed
we must go in exile.
Freedom is lost.
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Always death comes after us.
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Langele
Alez en desolation
Eue et adam pour vostre offense
Du lieu de consolation
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Encontre vous feray deffense
Homo cum in honore esset non intellexit et factus est &c
Adam
Pour mon viure voys labourer
En paine en soing & en traueil
Et de pourete endurer
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Chault et faim froit soif & sommeil
Alebis nos pane lacrimarum
Eue
Pour le pechie que auons commis
En exil aler nous conuient
De franchise sommes demis
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Tousiours la mort apres nous vient
Cor meum conturbatum est dereliquit me virtus mea &c
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Dances of death
Various
Mors de la Pomme
After the Fall