The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
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The angel driving Adam and Eve out of the garden is naked, and the Met reads that nakedness as pity — a human body given to the one figure whose job is to enforce the sentence. Above, God the Father is borne by seraphim over a mappamondo: earth at the centre, then the four elements, the planets, the zodiac. Eden's four rivers rise from the ground at the lower right. This was the bottom edge of an altarpiece in San Domenico, Siena, in 1445.
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,817 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.