ARTKABINETT social network for fine art collectors wishes everyone a happy Rosh Hashanah --the Jewish New Year.
This holiday celebrates the time of creation of the universe. Rosh in Hebrew means "Head"; HaShanah is "The Year".
According to the Jewish calendar, this new year is 5771.
Most Jews, of course, believe that the year cannot be taken quite llterally.
The day, however, is an exactitude set by the Hebrew lunar calendar and the time of commencement is a solar calculation derived precisely 18 minutes before local sundown: Paris 20h02; Bangalore 18h08; Tel Aviv 18h36; Moscou 19h50; Miami 19h15; etc.
At the foot of this page you will find the link to calculate the time in your city to light the candles in observance of the holiday.*
Listed below are all the paintings we can think of which celebrate creation. Please feel free to blog below any annotations or additions.
Adam and Eve & the Serpent, 3rd century Fresco. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
Table of Consanguinity, Unknown French, 1170-80. Getty Museum.
Table of Affinity, Unknown French, 1170-80. Getty Museum.
The Fall and its Aftermath, Hardham, Sussex, c 12??. Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church.
Expulsion from Paradise, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, c 1280. Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church.
The Creation of Eve, Andrea Pisano, 1336-43. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Giusto de' Menabuoi, 1376-78. Web Gallery of Art.
The Fall of Adam and Eve, Giovanni Bon, 1400-1410. Web Gallery of Art
Garden of Eden, Unknown German Master, 1410. Web Gallery of Art.
Temptation, Fall and Expulsion, Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. , 1411-1416. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
The Fall, Ramon de Mur, 1412. Web Gallery of Art.
The Story of Adam and Eve, Boucicaut Master, 1415. Getty Museum.
The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise, Limbourg Brothers, 1415. Web Gallery of Art.
Expulsion from the Eden, Jacopo della Quercia, 1425-28. Web Gallery of Art.
The Temptation, Masolino da Panicale, 1426-27. Web Gallery of Art.
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Massacio, 1426-27. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Jacopo della Quercia, c. 1428. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve (Ghent Alterpiece), Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432. Olga's Gallery.
The Creation and Expulsion from the Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo, c 1445. Web Gallery of Art.
The Creation of Adam, Paolo Uccello, 1445. Web Gallery of Art
Death of Adam, Piero della Francesca, 1452-60. Web Gallery of Art
The Fall, Hugo van der Goes, 1467-68. Web Gallery of Art.
The Expulsion from Paradise, Charles Joseph Natoire, 1470. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Fall of Man and the Lamentation, Hugo van der Goes, 1470-75. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
The Tree of Death and Life, Missal of Archbishop of Salzburg, 1481. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
Temptation & Fall, Florence Miniature, 1481. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
Adam: Detail of the Monument of Andrea Vendramin, Tullio Lombardo, 1480-95. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam, Antonio Rizzo, 1485. Web Gallery of Art
Eve, Antonio Rizzo, 1485. Web Gallery of Art
Adam and Eve, Hans Memling, 1485. Web Gallery of Art.
Paradise-Garden of Eden (from triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights), Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1490. From CGFA.
Temptation and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Unknown German, 1493. Web Gallery of Art.
Temptation & Fall of Adam and Eve, 15th century manuscript illumination. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
Adam und Eva, Palma Vecchio, c 1500. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum.
Expulsion from Paradise, Broughton, Cambridgeshire, c 15??. Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church.
Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, 1508. CGFA.
Adam and Eve, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517. CGFA.
Adam and Eve, Jan Gossaert (Mabuse), 1525. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528. CGFA.
The Fall of Man, Workshop of Albrecht Altdorfer, 1535. National Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Jan van Scorel, c 1540. Olga's Gallery.
Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve, Pontormo, 1546-56. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Tintoretto, c 1550. Web Gallery of Art.
The Garden of Eden or Love, Guillielmus Paludanus, 1567. Web Gallery of Art.
The Fall of Man, Titian, 1570. Temptation of Adam & Eve: Images.
Eve and the Apple, with Counterpart, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1578. Olga's Gallery.
The Fall of Man, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1592. Rijksmuseum.
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615. Olga's Gallery.
The Fall of Man, Hendrik Goltzius, 1616. National Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Domenichino, 1623-25. Web Gallery of Art.
The Spring. Adam and Eve in Paradise, Nicolas Poussin, 1660. Olga's Gallery.
Eve, Alonso Cano, 1666. Web Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise, Hendrick Frans Verbruggen, 1680-90. Web Gallery of Art.
Original Sin, Michiel van Coxcie, c 1770. Web Gallery of Art.
The Temptation of Adam, James Barry, 1776-1790. Tate Gallery.
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, c 1791. National Gallery of Art.
God Judging Adam, William Blake, 1795. Tate Gallery.
Satan Exulting over Eve, William Blake, 1795. Getty Museum.
Elohim Creating Adam, William Blake, 1795-1805. Tate Gallery.
The Temptation, attributed to John Landis, 1828. National Gallery.
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828. CGFA.
Eve Tempted, Hiram Powers modeled 1842. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
A Fruit-Bearing Tree: A Cedar of Paradise, Phebe A. Smith, 1842-46. National Gallery.
Adam and Eve, Thomas Crawford, 1855. Boston Athenaeum.
The Garden of Eden, Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865. CGFA.
The Expulsion From the Garden, Gustave Doré, 1866. From CGFA.
Eve Eating the Apple, Auguste Rodin, 1885. National Gallery.
The Bliss of Paradise, Victor Vasnetsov, 1885. Olga's Gallery.
The Temptation, Victor Vasnetsov, 2885-96. Olga's Gallery.
Eve. Don't Listen to the Liar, Paul Gauguin, 1889. Olga's Gallery.
The Guardian of Paradise, Franz von Stuck, 1889. CGFA.
Eve, Paul Gauguin, 1890. National Gallery of Art.
Adam and Eve, Hugo Simberg, 1895. Finnish National Gallery.
The Temptation, William Strang, 1899. Tate Gallery.
Adam, Eve, August Rodin, 1903-1904. Musee-Rodin.
Adam and Eve, Marc Chagall, 1912. From CGFA.
Adam and Eve, Gustav Klimt, 1917-18. From CGFA.
Eve, Paul Manship 1922. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Allegory, Sir Thomas Monnington, 1924. (Adam-Eve figures based on Monnington's love of Italy and his delight in his marriage.) Search for title or artist at the Tate Gallery site.
Adam, Paul Manship 1925. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The Human Condition, RenÈ Magritte, 1933. CGFA.
Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit, Marc Chagall, 1931. Genesis Reconsidered, Time.Com.
Adam and Eve Under the Apple Tree, Edvard Munch, c 1935.
Adam and Eve, Max Beckmann, 1936. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Garden of Eden Sundial, Paul Manship 1941. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Unavoidable Difficulties in the Garden of Eden,Gianfranco Baruchello, 1964, Hirschorn Museum,
Adam (1951-2), and Eve (1950), Barnett Newman. Search for title or artist at the Tate Gallery site.
Paradise, Edgar Tolson 1968. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Adam and Eve Leave Eden, John William ("Uncle Jack") Dey, 1973. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Expulsion, Edgar Tolson 1975. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Temptation, Eluid Levi Martinez 1990. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Expulsion of Adam and Eve, Wayne Forte, 1990.
Sueno (Dream: Eve Before Adam), Alfredo Arreguin 1992. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Adam and Eve, Phillip Ratner, 1998. Israel Bible Museum.
Eden Epoch, Phillip Ratner, 1998. Israel Bible Museum.
The Tree of Life, contemporary statue. Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum.
Sepherot of Eve, Phillip Ratner, 1998. Israel Bible Museum.
Sepherot of Adam, Phillip Ratner, 1998. Israel Bible Museum.
Adam and Eve, Natan Nuchi, 2003.
The Nakedness of Adam, Alan Falk, 2005.
The Expulsion: The Garments of Light, Alan Falk, 2005.
*Worldwide Jewish candle lighting time: http://www.chabad.org/calendar/location_cdo/AID/6226/jewish/Candle-Lighting.htm
