Description
The figures of Adam and Eve were carved separately and then set into the base. They are derived from Albrecht Dürer's enormously influential and often-copied engraving. Dürer himself based his representations of the first man, whom the Old Testament describes as made "in the image of God," on a then-famous antique statue of the Olympian god most known for his beauty, Apollo.
The carver was probably not aware of the classical source for Dürer's Adam; he certainly made the proportions chunkier. In general, wood carvers were little influenced by the aesthetic norms of classical sculpture.
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