Image Credits

Digging Up Eden

Every image on the course page, with its source, license, and the reason it was chosen. The artwork is public-domain and freely-licensed material from Wikimedia Commons: the great paintings of Eden and the Fall, the manuscripts and reliefs that carried the story, and the interpreters who reshaped it. Creative Commons works are attributed below.

Image Work & Attribution License Where it appears Why it’s included
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man eden-garden.jpg The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens (photo: Txllxt TxllxT) Painting c. 1615 (photographed 2018) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 4.0 Hero background Brueghel and Rubens’ lush, teeming Eden: the garden in full color before the Fall.
Adam and Eve durer-adam-eve.jpg Adam and Eve Albrecht Dürer 1504 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament Dürer’s engraving, the tree and serpent between the first two humans.
Adam and Eve cranach-adam-eve.jpg Adam and Eve Lucas Cranach the Elder c. 1538 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament & Lecture 02 medallion Cranach’s slender Adam and Eve at the tree, one of the most copied images of the scene.
The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Sistine Chapel ceiling) michelangelo-fall.jpg The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Sistine Chapel ceiling) Michelangelo c. 1509 to 1510 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament & Lecture 06 medallion Michelangelo’s single panel holding both the temptation and the expulsion.
The Expulsion from Paradise (illuminated manuscript miniature) ms-expulsion.jpg The Expulsion from Paradise (illuminated manuscript miniature) Unknown illuminator (New York Public Library) c. 1445 Source ↗ Public domain Origin section figure A medieval reading of the Expulsion: the angel drives Adam and Eve from the garden, fig leaves in hand.
Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) eve-serpent.jpg Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) Titian (photo: Szilas) Painting c. 1550 Source ↗ Public domain At-a-Glance backdrop Titian’s Eve reaching for the fruit as the child-serpent offers it.
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden cole-garden.jpg Expulsion from the Garden of Eden Thomas Cole 1828 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 03 medallion & Bonuses backdrop Cole, founder of American landscape painting, casting Eden as a New World vista.
The Schocken Bible, frontispiece genesis-hebrew.jpg The Schocken Bible, frontispiece Unknown illuminator (Southern Germany) c. 1300 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 09 medallion A Hebrew Bible frontispiece of biblical scenes, the text returning to its own tradition.
The Garden of Eden (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, folio 25v) illuminated-eden.jpg The Garden of Eden (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, folio 25v) Limbourg brothers c. 1411 to 1416 Source ↗ Public domain Instructor backdrop The Limbourg brothers’ circular Eden, the whole story of the Fall in one jewel-like page.
Satan (illustration for Milton’s Paradise Lost) dore-paradise-lost.jpg Satan (illustration for Milton’s Paradise Lost) Gustave Doré 1866 Source ↗ Public domain Stats backdrop Doré’s Satan, the character Milton, not Genesis, gave the serpent.
The Fall of Man van-der-goes-fall.jpg The Fall of Man Hugo van der Goes c. 1470s Source ↗ Public domain “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop & Lecture 08 medallion Van der Goes’ serpent given a human face and torso, the myth of a Satanic snake made visible.
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve (Zettler stained glass, Cathedral of St. Helena) eden-stained-glass.jpg The Expulsion of Adam and Eve (Zettler stained glass, Cathedral of St. Helena) Photo: NateBergin Photographed 2026 Source ↗ CC BY 4.0 Lecture 01 medallion & FAQ backdrop The story as sacred emblem, glowing in a cathedral window.
Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve blake-eve.jpg Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve William Blake 1808 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 04 medallion Blake’s illustration to Milton’s Paradise Lost, the poem that shaped the modern Eve.
Lilith collier-lilith.jpg Lilith John Collier c. 1887 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 05 medallion Collier’s Lilith entwined by the serpent, the figure medieval readers built from a single word.
Saint Augustine in His Study augustine.jpg Saint Augustine in His Study Sandro Botticelli c. 1480 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 07 medallion Botticelli’s Augustine, the Church Father who welded original sin onto the story.
The Queen of the Night relief (Burney Relief) ane-relief.jpg The Queen of the Night relief (Burney Relief) Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin Relief c. 1750 BCE (photographed 2014) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 4.0 Lecture 10 medallion An Old Babylonian goddess with wings and talons, the world beneath Genesis.

Public-domain works are reproduced freely. CC BY / CC BY-SA images are credited to their photographers as required; follow each Source link for the full license text.