The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was ...

We’re told God ... art in the Flemish lands. The altarpiece depicts 12 scenes with Christ at its center. At the edges of its upper row are the figures of Adam (on the right) and Eve (on the ...

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” God clothed Adam and Eve in skins and cast them out of Eden, lest Adam, who “is become as one of us, to know good and evil… put forth his ...

It’s this perfect balance between the story of Adam and Eve and their sons, Cain and Abel, but also this typical Venetian landscape with this wonderful balancing between warm and cold hues.