Sacred Images
From Scripture, Legend & History
From Scripture, Legend & History
- Beham, The Expulsion from Paradise
- Sadeler, Jubal and His Musical Instruments
- Lodewyk , Hagar in the Wilderness
- Pencz, Lot and His Daughters
- Bos or Bossius, Jacob's Dream
- Tempesta , The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea
- Swanevelt , Balaam and the Ass
- van der Gouwen, Gideon's Battle with the Midianites
- van Leyden, David in Prayer
- Galle, Solomon Building the Temple
- Collaert, Solomon Bringing the Ark to the Temple
- Martin, The Dedication of the Temple
- Hollar, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Saenredam, The Prophet Ahijah Tearing His Cloak
- Hirschvogel, Elisha Raises the Son of the Shunemite Woman
- Collaert, The Triumph of Judith
- de Bruyn, Ezekiel's Vision
- de Bruyn, St. John the Baptist
- Maratta, The Visitation
- Sadeler, The Nativity
- Kirchner, The Journey of the Magi
- Goudt, The Flight into Egypt
- Mola, The Rest on the Flight into Egyp
- Callot, The Massacre of the Innocents
- Sadeler, The Temptation of Christ
- Altdorfer, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Collaert, July, with The Parable of the Good Shepherd
- Graf, The Cursing of the Fig Tree
- Collaert, October, with The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
- Wechtlin, Christ Before Caiaphas
- Romano, Ecce Homo
- Bolswert, Christ Crowned with Thorns
- Corinth, Kreuztragung
- Ostendorfer, Christ on the Cross, with the Virgin and St. John
- Sadeler , Lamentation of Three Angels (Corpus Christi)
- Forain, La Rencontre sous la Voƻte (1re planche)
- Forain, La Fraction du Pain
- Camuccini, Thomas Touching the Wound of the Risen Christ
- Master AG, The Death of the Virgin
- Anonymous Italian,The Man of Sorrows, Half Length
- Puccinelli , The Sudarium
- Aldegrever, Madonna and Child Seated on a Grassy Bank
- Cranach, The Martyrdoms of the 12 Apostles
- Durer, The Patron Saints of Austria
- Novelli, Saint Francis and Saint Dominic in the Clouds
- Lesueur & de Caylus, The Virgin and Child Appearing
- der Leeuw , The Martyrdom of St. Catherine
- de Leu, Solitudo sive Vitae Foeminarum Anachoritarum
- Anonymous Flemish, Humilis Animus (The Humble Heart)
- van Somer, Sister Marie-Jeanne-des-Anges
- Forain. L'Imploration devant la Grotte, Lourdes
The Expulsion from Paradise
Engraving, 1543, 81 x 56 mm., Bartsch 7; Pauli 8 iii/iii, ex collections Erich von Rath (Lugt 2721) and Richard Lachmanski (L. 2223b). Very fine impression on laid paper with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark, the borderline visible all around and the tablet descending below the borderline. The work is freely based on figures from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, but the conception of the angel appears to be entirely original. One of Beham's greatest prints. Genesis 3 tells us: "The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."