Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for
Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising
half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their
commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure.
At the same time, the story of God constructing the first woman
from a rib did not offer the kind of dignified, affective pictorial
narrative that artists, patrons, and the public prized. Jack M.
Greenstein takes this artistic problem as the point of departure
for an iconographic study of this central theme of Christian
culture. His book shows how the meaning changed along with the form
when Lorenzo Ghiberti, Andrea Pisano, and other Italian sculptors
of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries revised the traditional
composition to accommodate a naturalistically depicted Eve. At
stake, Greenstein argues, is the role of the artist and the power
of image-making in reshaping Renaissance culture and religious
thought.
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