Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Title: Eve
Creator: Unknown artist; scholars formerly identified the sculptor as Gislebertus
Description: A reclining Eve grasps the forbidden fruit with her left hand. A fig tree hides her genitals. With her right she touches her cheek, an iconographic motif found in other depictions of the Fall and which connotes Adam’s and Eve’s grief at the Expulsion. The sculptor thus eloquently conveys a number of emotions in a single figure.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Subject (See Also): Eve (Biblical Figure) Fall of Humankind Sexuality
Geographic Area: France
Century: 12
Date: Circa 1120-1132
Related Work:
Current Location: Autun, Cathedral of St. Lazarus, north transept portal (destroyed), lintel fragment
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Sculptures
Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Reliefs (sculptures)
Donor: Gislebertus (?); See Seidel, Linda. Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Height/Width/Length(cm): 72.4 cm/129.5 cm/
Inscription:
Related Resources: Autun, Musée Rolin;
Bleeke, Marian. "Resurrecting Lazarus: The Eve from Saint-Lazare at Autun," IN Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture: Representations from France, c. 1100-1500. Boydell Press, 2017. Pages 87-119.