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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/25/adam-eve-naked-again-after-centuries-old-cover-up-fitzwilliam-museumPublished by: THE GUARDIAN on 25 Jul 2016
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Exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge shows biblical pair in original state after onetime owner painted over nudity Adam and Eve are once again as naked as the day they were created, centuries after some prudish hand wrapped his loins in a grass skirt and draped a veil around her, in anillustrated book to go on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The original naked figures – correct according to the biblical account where Adam and Eve only became ashamed of their bare bodies when they ate the forbidden fruit and were expelled from the Garden of Eden – were considered perfectly suitable by Queen Anne of Brittany in 1505, who commissioned the book as a gift for her five-year-old daughter, Claude. The book, made by a court painter known as the Master of Antoine de Roche, was created to teach the little princess the alphabet as well as the story of creation.
A later owner had the couple covered up – Eve with a wispy veil concealing very little and Adam with a [...]
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