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MasaccioExpulsion

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Image ID :	Masaccio_025
View/Description :	View of fresco before 1980s restoration
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Image Date :	2005
Image Source :	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masaccio_025.jpg
Notes :	The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Rights Owner :	Public Domain
URL to larger image :	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Masaccio_025.jpg

Work ID :	MasaccioExpulsion
Title :	Expulsion from Paradise
Creator/Agent :	Masaccio [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	c1427
Location/Site :	Italy, Florence, Santa Maria del Carmine, Brancacci Chapel Italy [TGN] Tuscany [TGN] Firenze [TGN] Florence [TGN]
GIS Coordinates :	+43.767785+11.243042/
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Description :	Adam and Eve, naked, leave the Garden of Eden through a tall archway, expressions of great sorrow and anxiety on their faces and expressed by their gestures. An angel at the top of the fresco, armed with a sword and dressed in red robes, points out, expelling the pait from paradise.
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Work Type :	Fresco frescoes [AAT] Painting
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Material :	fresco
Technique :	fresco painting [AAT]
Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Renaissance [AAT] Early Renaissance [AAT]
Cultural Context :	European [AAT] Italian [AAT] Tuscan Florence
Subject :	Religious [AAT] Christianity Biblical
Relation :	1 of 7 frescos in a cycle in the Brancacci Chapel, illustration of a scene from the Christian Bible
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Text Reference :	Hartt, Frederick. 1969. History of Italian Renaissance art: painting, sculpture, architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams. (pp 200-102) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expulsion_from_the_Garden_of_Eden_(Masaccio)
Keywords :	emotion, mourning, despair, exile, Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve, angel, doorway, scandal
Notes :	Illustration of Bible, Old Testament, Genesis 3. In the 18th C, fig leaves were added to the fresco to cover the nudity of Adam and Eve; these were removed in the 1980s during restoration.