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The Expulsion from Paradise
Although God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’, they did so anyway. As punishment, they were driven out of Paradise by an angel with a flaming sword. They fled into the barren mountain landscape. Van Poelenburch, after returning to the Netherlands from Italy, produced this type of highly refined, painstakingly painted landscape throughout the res…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71A6
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1646
- 1646
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5061
- SK-A-312
Extent
- height 30 cm
- width 38 cm
Format
- oil paint (paint)
- panel
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1646
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:14.927Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:44.208Z