Sarcophagus | The Forbidden Fruit in Western Art

Location: Rome, Italy
Date: 300-324
Medium: Sarcophagus.
Source: Museo Pio Cristiano, Vatican City

Cyriaca Sarcophagus

Mas d’Aire Sarcophagus

Receptio Animae Sarcophagus

Dogmatic Sarcophagus

Adelphia Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus of Aurelius

The First Layos Sarcophagus

The Second Layos Sarcophagus

Fall of Man with Hephaestus

Early Christian Cemetery

Junius-Bassus Sarcophagus

Domitilla Catacombs

Sarcophagus of Albane and Bertrance

The Grandval Bible

The Vivian Bible or The First Bible of Charle the Bald

Bible of Charles the Bald or Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura

Illuminated manuscript

Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve

St. Severus Beatus

Capital north apse

Portal Lintel Relief

Portal Lintel Relief

West Façade Portal Tympanum

Josephus, Antiquitates judaicae

Untitled, Musée de Picardie

West Façade Frieze

Untitled, Notre Dame cathedral

West Portal Tympanus

Psalter of Amiens

Capital exterior apse

Untitled, Notre Dame du Port

Stained Glass Window, Chartres Cathedral

Stained Glass Window, Chartres Cathedral

Picture Bible and Vitae Sanctorum

Stained glass window, Bourges Cathedral

Stained glass window, Soissons Cathedral

Capital, right portal, Cathedral of Notre Dame of Amiens

Psautier de S. Louis et Blanche de Castille

Bible moralisée

Stained glass window, Lyon Cathedral

Bible moralisée

Morgan Crusader Bible (Shah Abbas Bible)

Stained Glass Window

Stained Glass Window

Stained Glass Window, Tours Cathedral

Stained Glass Window, Amiens Cathedral

Stained Glass Window, Reims Cathedral

Stained Glass Window, Auxerre Cathedral

Stained Glass Window, Auxerre Cathedral

Lyre Abbey Psalter

Queste del graal

Queste del graal

Psalter Book of Hours

Cathedral of St. Etienne, West façade frieze

Thomas of Cantimpré, De rerum natura

Miscellany of Hebrew Texts

Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi

Exterior north portal

Stained Glass Window, Strasbourg Cathedral

Missal of Corbie

Apocalypse of St. John

L’estoire del Saint Graal

L’estoire del Saint Graal

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Romance of Lancelot du Lac

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Miroir historial

Quest de sant graal

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Histoires bibliques

Bible moralisée

Bible historiale (the Bible Historiale of John the Good)

La Bible historiale complétée (Genesis-Psalms)

Bible historiale

Breviary of Charles V

Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César

Grande Bible Historiale Complétée

Portable Antiphonal from Besançon.

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Histoire Universelle

Miroir historial

Cleres et nobles femmes

Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes

Des Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes

Bible historiale

Bedford Hours, Produced for the Duke of Bedford’s Wedding

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Bible historiale

Augustine, De Civitate Dei

Speculum humane salvationis

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

Speculum humane salvationis

Miroir d'humaine salvation

Le Livre des hystoires du Mirouer du monde

De proprietatibus rerum (trans.)

Mare historiarum

De civitate Dei

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

Roll, Arms of Gavre de Liedekerke

de civitate dei (trans.)

De claris mulieribus

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

Quest del Saint Grail

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

Miroir de la salvation humaine

Compost et calendrier des bergers

In Epistolam Joannis

Salomon Biblia Sacra

Caedmon Genesis

Old English Hexateuch

St. Albans Psalter

Walsingham Bible

Saint Louis Psalter, Psalter of Geoffrey Plantagenet

Hunterian Psalter

Canterbury Psalter

Golden Munich Psalter

Psalter/Psalter of Henry of Blois

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

Opus Anglicanum Cope (lost)

“The Bible or Robert de Bello”

bestiaire divin

Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi

Poetic miscellany

Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi

Grandisson Psalter

Holland Psalter

Queen Mary Psalter

Cope of Daroca (English)

The Peterborough Psalter

La lumiere as lais

The Queen Mary Psalter

Book of Hours Carew-Poyntz

Holkham Bible Picture Book

Untitled, Ely Cathedral

Speculum humanae salvationis

Psalter and Hours

Historia Polychronica

Polychronicon Ranulf Higden

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

York Minster, Great East Window

Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (extracts)

Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

The Fall of Princes

Vellum Role: Genealogy of the Kings of England

Roll: Chronicle of the History of the World

Genealogical chronicle of the Kings of England

Genealogical Biblical and English history

Genealogical chronicle of the Kings of England from Adam to Edward IV

Fall of Princes (De Casibus)

Fall of Princes

Speculum humanae salvationis

The Sacramentary of Bishop Abraham

Ivory Book Cover

Marianus Scotus, Chronicle

Capital, south apse, capital 6

Bible of St. Mary de Parc

Dialogus de Laudibus Sanctae Crucis

Prayerbook of Hildegard of Bingen

Hortus Deliciarum

Klosterneuburg Altar

Millstatt Genesis

Passionary of Weissenau

Psalter with Calendar

Augsburg Psalter

Grosbois Psalter-Hours

Psalter and Hours

Choir, Window 1, row 2

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Speculum humanae salvationis

Northeast Choir Portal

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Neustädter Marienkirche Altarpiece

the master of the Berswordt Altar

Duke Albrecht’s Table of Christian Faith

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry

Compilatio Historiarum

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Egmont Breviary

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Bruges Book of Hours

Bruges Book of Hours

Hours use of Sarum

The Fortesque Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Southern German OT

Postilae Bibliae

Von synnrychen erluchten wyben

Canterbury Hours

Compilatio Historiarum

Compilatio Historiarum, fol. 24v, apples but also breasts

The Fall of Adam

The Last Judgment

Grimani Breviary

Altar of St. John

Supplementum chronicarum

Market portal, Marienkapelle, Würzburg

Nuremberg Chronicle

Gebetbuch des Claus Humbracht

"Eve, the Serpent, and Death”

Stone Engraving

The Last Supper

Illustration to Otto von Passau, Die vierundzwanzig Alten

The Fall of Man

Book, The Power of Women

The Fall of Man

Cripta del Peccato Originale

León Bible of 960

Facundus Beatus

Facundus Beatus

Roda Bible (Farfa Bible)

Untitled, Church of San Juan Bautista de Palencia

Monte Cassino Exultet Roll

Escorial Beatus

Salerno Ivories

Ivory Engraving

Giant Bible (Atlantic Bible)

Relief, exterior façade of San Zeno Maggiore

Bible of Santa Maria del Fiore

Relief, Duomo di Modena

Mosaic, Palatine Chapel Nave

Untitled, Museo Episcopal de Vic, Barcelona

Untitled, Santa Maria de Covet

Untitled, Church of Santa Maria, cloister

Untitled, Cathedral of Santa Maria, Gerona, cloister

Untitled, Church of Santa María de Bareyo

Untitled, Cluny Museum of Medieval Art, Paris

Bronze Doors, Monreale Cathedral

Bronze Doors, San Ranieri Cathedral

Capital, Monreale Cathedral

Relief, Lodi Cathedral

Altar Side Table

Sculpture, Cathedral of S. Martino

Fresco, San Giovanni a Porta Latina

Capital, Santa Maria Assunta

Nave, north wall

Bible of San Millan de la Cogolla

Las Huelgas Beatus

Las Huelgas Beatus

Capital, Church of San Juan de Amandi

Capital, Church of Santa María Magdalena de los Corros

Cantigas de Santa Maria

Mosaic, Baptistery of San Giovanni

Treatise of the World's Creation

Fresco, Santa Maria in Vescovio

Cantigas de Santa Maria

Cross of Constantine

Marble Relief, Façade of Duomi di Orvieto

Chronologia magna

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Anjou Bible (aka the Andreas von Ungarn/the Alife/the Leuven Bible)

Histoire universelle

Relief, Crucifix Chapel

“Thirty Biblical Stories”

“Thirty Biblical Stories”

Postilla litteralis in Genesim

Turin or Orsini Bible

Bible moralisée

Wall Fresco, Pomposa Monastery

Robert von Tarent Bible

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Untitled, Baptistery of St. John

Book of Hours and Missal

Breviari d’Amor

Adam and Eve Cycle

Statue, Doge’s Palace

Fresco, Church of Saint Proclus

Speculum Animae

Stained Glass Window, Pisa Duomo, North XII Window

Compendium of rabbinic legal treatises

Piccolomini Breviary

Marble Relief, Sacre grotte Vaticane, Vatican City

Prayerbook of Lorenzo de'Medici

Detail from Virgin of Victory

Mirandola Book of Hours

Fresco, Sistine Chapel

Painting, Mariotto Albertinelli

Glazed Terracotta

Farnese Book of Hours

The Temptation of Adam

Storie Della Genesi

Altarpiece Statues, Cathedral of Pisa

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve (detail)

Plinth Pane, Church of St. Athanasius

Quest del Saint Grail

Weltchronik, Manuscript

dogmatic sarcophagus

10.2307 community.15995847-1

Florentine Picture Chronicle

Adelphia's sarcophagus

Missal of Salzburg

Bible moralisée

Cantigas de Santa Maria

Epistelbuch der Kölner Domkirche

Ghent Altarpiece

Haywain Triptych

Homilies on the Virgin

Lambert-canon of Saint Omer

Retable, Maestro de Salomón de Fromista

Medici Tapestries, The Fall (detail)

Exterior Relief

Sarcófago Receptio animae8

sarcofago-grande-1

The Fortesque Hours

Bible historiale

Box for a Gospel Book

Adam and Eve Cycle

Fresco, Santissima Annunziata Church

Marchiennes Bible

Maso Finiguerra “The Story of Adam and Eve”

Reliquary of Saint Isidore

Domitilla Catacombs

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Retable, Ramón de Mur

Painting, Masolino da Panicale

“The Dream of the Virgin”

Gilded bronze tile, Gates of Paradise of the Baptistery of San Giovanni

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

“The Story of Adam and Eve”

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