02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder’s The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man – with footnotes #203

The scene is a reference to Genesis 2:8–14 and hosts a variety of animals, presumably 100, from diverse ecosystems. There is a Capuchin Monkey from South America, hidden to the left, who bites into an apple to symbolize the sin about the be committed by Adam and Eve…

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