Against the backdrop of a dense forest and rock formations leading away into the distance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) allows the pale flesh of Adam and Eve’s naked bodies to radiate brightly out of his 1504 engraving. With the intention that the first man and woman should appear in God’s image, Dürer represents them with idealised body types, based in formal terms on the antique statues of the Belvedere Apollo and the Venus of Milo. Although their faces are turned towards each other, their eyes do not meet. Are they hiding something from one other? Dürer shows the final moment before the Fall. Eve conceals an apple behind her body in her left hand, while accepting another of the forbidden fruits from the Tree of Knowledge from the serpent’s mouth. Adam’s outstretched arm, his pose turned towards Eve as well as his gaze show that he, too, has already decided to renounce eternal life in order to gain knowledge.