The picture shows an engraved illustration entitled “Allegory of the Expulsion from Paradise”. Several figures can be seen in the foreground, including Adam and Eve, who are depicted naked. On the left, a reclining figure points to a bright light, while another person holds a mirror. An angel with outstretched wings hovers above the scene, symbolizing the expulsion. A tree with a writhing serpent stands in the center of the picture, and on the right Adam and Eve are driven out of paradise by an angel, illustrating the biblical story of expulsion.
Agostino Veneziano, Allegory of the Expulsion from Paradise, 1530-1535, copperplate engraving | Picture: Volker H. Schneider (Fotograf) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Botticelli, Titian and their contemporaries also dealt with endangered nature, with real and fictitious paradises and with their loss. In the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany’s largest collection of art on paper, a selection of drawings and prints from the Renaissance and Baroque periods gives an idea of the fascinating diversity of the subject matter. Perhaps art can even be a place where threatened paradises can be saved and preserved and thus continue to offer refuge and inspiration?


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