the story lived on, motivating probably the best writers and painters. As the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Harvard humanities educator Stephen Greenblatt appears in this pellucid, retaining and for some contemporary perusers unquestionably complete record, the scriptural picture of Adam and Eve was over and again changed in Western craftsmanship. In Renaissance Europe, the similar bare figures of the fifteenth century Flemish ace Jan van Eyck – demonstrating Adam's hands blushed from work and Eve's conspicuous midsection – moved toward becoming in Albrecht Dürer's etching The Fall of Man (1504) a manifestation of ideal excellence in a world that had not yet fallen into evil and mortality. In Milton's Paradise Lost – "the best lyric in the English dialect", as Greenblatt and numerous others accept – the Genesis story was transmuted into a disaster molded by Satan's pride and the shared love of Adam and Eve.
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