Minoan Snake Goddess
       
     
Goddess holding snake in both hands
       
     
Wadjet
       
     
Hygieia
       
     
Hygeia
       
     
 Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia Rhodes
       
     
Hygieia
       
     
Venus - Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia
       
     
Buto
       
     
Uto
       
     
Egyptian goddess Wadjet
       
     
Amenhotep II
       
     
A gold amulet of Wadjet
       
     
sideview of Tut's Golden Mask
       
     
The All-seeing Eye guarded by the Two Ladies: Nekhbet and Wadjet
       
     
Eve (Temptation)
       
     
Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Original sin and expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Peccato originale e cacciata dal Paradiso terrestre)
       
     
Original Sin
       
     
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
       
     
The Expulsion From Eden
       
     
Garden of Eden
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve banished from Paradise (La cacciata dal Paradiso)
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve with the forbidden fruit (Adam et Eve et le fruit défendu)
       
     
Three Foolish Virgins Flanked by Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Man and Woman (Adam and Eve) (Мужчина и женщина)
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Paradise, Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve in Paradise
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise (Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis)
       
     
Adam Is Tempted by Eve
       
     
ADAM AND EVE UNDER THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
       
     
Adam and Eve (Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam & Eve (Adam și Eva)
       
     
Adam and Eve, (Adam et Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve près de l'arbre du Bien et du Mal)
       
     
Eve - Don't Listen to the Liar
       
     
Adam and Eve or Paradise Lost (Adam et Ève, ou Le Paradis perdu)
       
     
The Tahitian Eve
       
     
Words of the Devil
       
     
Adam and Eve
       
     
Lilith with a Snake
       
     
Rites of Lilith
       
     
Lilith
       
     
Lady Lilith
       
     
Lilith
       
     
Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
La Muerte de Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
Prudence - detail from Tombeau de François II de Bretagne
       
     
Prudence
       
     
Prudence
       
     
Margaret of Antioch
       
     
Sensuality
       
     
Die Sünde (The Sin)
       
     
Isis with Serpent Tail
       
     
Snake Goddess
       
     
Minoan Snake Goddess
       
     
Minoan Snake Goddess
Goddess holding snake in both hands
       
     
Goddess holding snake in both hands

Vitastjerna's dream from the Gutasaga with the three entwined snakes symbolizing Graip, Gute and Gunfjaun, with her at the bottom, Gotland, Sweden. Now in Fornsalen museum, Visby.

Wadjet
       
     
Wadjet

Ua Zit, Wadjet, Wedjat, Eye of Horus

Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia

Gustav Klimt, 1900-1907, Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings. The bottom portion of the Medicine picture, showing Hygieia

Hygeia
       
     
Hygeia

copia romana da originale greco del II sec. ac

image from Wikipedia

 Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia

Alexander Handyside Ritchie, College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh

image from Wikipedia

Hygieia Rhodes
       
     
Hygieia Rhodes

Small statue of Hygieia. Mid-2nd century C.E., Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

image from Wikipedia

Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia

Statue (head) of the goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius, by the Greek sculptor Scopas (c. 395 BC – 350 BC). From the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

image from Wikipedia

Venus - Hygieia
       
     
Venus - Hygieia

Venus-Hygieia. Roman, made in Asia Minor, about A.D.200, Getty Villa

image from Wikipedia

Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia

Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany

image from Wikipedia, photo by Daniel Schwen

Hygieia
       
     
Hygieia

Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany

image from Wikipedia, photo by Daniel Schwen

Buto
       
     
Buto

Buto, Cobra Goddess of Lower Egypt (also known as Ua Zit, Uatchit, Udjat, Wadjet, Wadjit, Edjo). She was portrayed as the Uranus cobra worn on the Pharaoh’s brow.

image from Egyptianmyths.net

Uto
       
     
Uto

Patron goddess of Lower-Egypt

image from The Ancient Egypt site

Egyptian goddess Wadjet
       
     
Egyptian goddess Wadjet

(painting from the tomb of Nefertari, ca 1270 BC)

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Amenhotep II
       
     
Amenhotep II

Amenhotep II wearing the Uraeus (painting, ca. 1400 BC)

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A gold amulet of Wadjet
       
     
A gold amulet of Wadjet

from Tutankhamun's tomb, ca 1320 BC

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sideview of Tut's Golden Mask
       
     
sideview of Tut's Golden Mask

image from TourEgypt

The All-seeing Eye guarded by the Two Ladies: Nekhbet and Wadjet
       
     
The All-seeing Eye guarded by the Two Ladies: Nekhbet and Wadjet
Eve (Temptation)
       
     
Eve (Temptation)

Pantaleon Szyndler, 1889, National Museum in Warsaw

Eve
       
     
Eve

Albrecht Durer, 1507, Northern Renaissance: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Max Beckmann, 1917, Expressionism

Original sin and expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Peccato originale e cacciata dal Paradiso terrestre)
       
     
Original sin and expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Peccato originale e cacciata dal Paradiso terrestre)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Neoclassicism

Original Sin
       
     
Original Sin

Salvador Dali, 1941, Realism, Surrealism

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
       
     
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530, Northern Renaissance: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528, Northern Renaissance: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
       
     
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole, 1827 - 1828, Romanticism

The Expulsion From Eden
       
     
The Expulsion From Eden

Ford Madox Brown, Romanticism

Garden of Eden
       
     
Garden of Eden

Frederick Morgan, 1891, Romanticism

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Edvard Munch, 1918, Expressionism

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Paul Gauguin, 1902; French Polynesia, Post-Impressionism

Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve)

Fernand Leger, 1935 - 1939, Purism: Musee National Fernand Leger, Biot, France

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1538, Germany, Northern Renaissance

Adam and Eve banished from Paradise (La cacciata dal Paradiso)
       
     
Adam and Eve banished from Paradise (La cacciata dal Paradiso)

Masaccio, c.1427, Early Renaissance: Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Albrecht Durer, 1504, Northern Renaissance: Morgan Library and Museum (Pierpont Morgan Library), New York City, NY, US

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Marc Chagall, 1912; Paris, France, Cubism: Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, US

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Tamara de Lempicka, 1932, Art Deco

Adam and Eve with the forbidden fruit (Adam et Eve et le fruit défendu)
       
     
Adam and Eve with the forbidden fruit (Adam et Eve et le fruit défendu)

Marc Chagall, 1960; France, Naïve Art (Primitivism)

Three Foolish Virgins Flanked by Adam and Eve
       
     
Three Foolish Virgins Flanked by Adam and Eve

Parmigianino, c.1531 - c.1539, Mannerism (Late Renaissance): Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma, Italy

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

from the 'Stanza della Segnatura' Raphael, c.1508 - 1511, High Renaissance: Vatican Museums, Vatican

Man and Woman (Adam and Eve) (Мужчина и женщина)
       
     
Man and Woman (Adam and Eve) (Мужчина и женщина)

Pavel Filonov, 1912 - 1913, Analytical Realism

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Peter Paul Rubens, c.1597, Baroque

Paradise, Adam and Eve
       
     
Paradise, Adam and Eve

Marcel Duchamp, c.1910; France, Post-Impressionism: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Francis Picabia, c.1931, Surrealism

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Hans Baldung, 1531, Northern Renaissance: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Adam and Eve in Paradise
       
     
Adam and Eve in Paradise

Mabuse, c.1527, Northern Renaissance

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Mabuse, 1525, Northern Renaissance

Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise (Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis)
       
     
Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise (Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis)

Marc Chagall, 1961; France, Surrealism

Adam Is Tempted by Eve
       
     
Adam Is Tempted by Eve

James Tissot, c.1875, Symbolism

ADAM AND EVE UNDER THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
       
     
ADAM AND EVE UNDER THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Ernst Fuchs, 1984, Fantastic Realism

Adam and Eve (Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve (Eve)

Fernando Botero, 1968, Naïve Art (Primitivism)

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Maerten van Heemskerck, c.1550, Mannerism (Late Renaissance)

Adam & Eve (Adam și Eva)
       
     
Adam & Eve (Adam și Eva)

Victor Brauner, 1923, Expressionism

Adam and Eve, (Adam et Eve)
       
     
Adam and Eve, (Adam et Eve)

Wifredo Lam, 1969

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Michelangelo, 1512, High Renaissance: Sistine Chapel Paintings

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Jean Benoit, Surrealism

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Frank Eugene, 1898, Pictorialism

Eve
       
     
Eve

Henri Rousseau, c.1906 - 1907, Naïve Art (Primitivism): Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve près de l'arbre du Bien et du Mal)
       
     
Adam and Eve (Adam et Eve près de l'arbre du Bien et du Mal)

Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722): Louvre Museum

Eve - Don't Listen to the Liar
       
     
Eve - Don't Listen to the Liar

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)

Adam and Eve or Paradise Lost (Adam et Ève, ou Le Paradis perdu)
       
     
Adam and Eve or Paradise Lost (Adam et Ève, ou Le Paradis perdu)

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903): Yale University Art Gallery (Inventory)

The Tahitian Eve
       
     
The Tahitian Eve

Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903

Words of the Devil
       
     
Words of the Devil

Paul Gauguin, 1892, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Adam and Eve
       
     
Adam and Eve

Carlos Alonso, 1965, Expressionism

Lilith with a Snake
       
     
Lilith with a Snake

John Collier, 1886

Rites of Lilith
       
     
Rites of Lilith

Mark Rothko, 1945, Surrealism

Lilith
       
     
Lilith

Kiki Smith, 1994, Feminist Art

Lady Lilith
       
     
Lady Lilith

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868, Romanticism: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, US

According to ancient Judaic myth, Lilith is "the first wife of Adam" and is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. She is shown as a "powerful and evil temptress" and as "an iconic, Amazon-like female with long, flowing hair."

Lilith
       
     
Lilith

Lilith, Adam's First Wife, illustration from the poem Faust, from Goethe's Walpurgisnacht/ Walpurgis Night; Ernst Barlach: 1923, McMaster Museum of Art

Publisher: CASSIRER, Paul

Dimensions: Block: 19.2 x 14.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 5/8 in.) Support: 31.4 x 23.2 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Medium: Woodcut on paper

Cleopatra
       
     
Cleopatra

John Sartain, 1885, Engraving depicting Caesar Augustus' now lost painting of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818. She is seen here wearing the golden radiant crown of the Ptolemaic rulers (Sartain, 1885, pp. 41, 44) and being bitten by an asp in an act of suicide. She also wears the knot of Isis (i.e. tyet) around her neck, which corresponds to Plutarch's description of her wearing the robes of the Egyptian goddess Isis (Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920, p. 9.)

The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra

Guido Cagnacci, 1659, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra

Edmonia Lewis, carved 1876, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois, 1994.17

Cleopatra (69 — 30 BCE), the legendary queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE, is often best known for her dramatic suicide, allegedly from the fatal bite of a poisonous snake. Here, Edmonia Lewis portrayed Cleopatra in the moment after her death, wearing her royal attire, in majestic repose on a throne. The identical sphinx heads flanking the throne represent the twins she bore with Roman general Marc Antony, while the hieroglyphics on the side have no meaning. Lewis was working at a time when Neoclassicism was a popular artistic style that favored classical, Biblical, or literary themes—thus Cleopatra was a common subject. Unlike her contemporaries who often depicted an idealized Cleopatra merely contemplating suicide, Lewis showed the queen’s death more realistically, after the asp’s venom had taken hold—an attribute viewed as ​“ghastly” and ​“absolutely repellant” in its day (William J. Clark, Great American Sculpture, 1878). Despite this, the piece was first exhibited to great acclaim at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and critics raved that it was the most impressive American sculpture in the show. Not long after its debut, however, Death of Cleopatra was presumed lost for almost a century—appearing at a Chicago saloon, marking a horse’s grave at a suburban racetrack, and eventually reappearing at a salvage yard in the 1980s. The Museum has an online exhibit that documents the statue’s storied history and conservation.

La Muerte de Cleopatra
       
     
La Muerte de Cleopatra

Juan Luna, 1881, Museo del Prado

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The Death of Cleopatra
       
     
The Death of Cleopatra

Guercino, 1648, Musei di Strada Nuova

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Prudence - detail from Tombeau de François II de Bretagne
       
     
Prudence - detail from Tombeau de François II de Bretagne

detail from the Tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and his wives, Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Nantes, France

Prudence
       
     
Prudence

detail from Cassone made for Lorenzo Morelli, portrait attributed to Domenico de Zanobi, Courtauld Gallery

photo from Art Mirrors Art

Prudence
       
     
Prudence

Andrea della Robbia, Italian, c. 1475, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1921

Margaret of Antioch
       
     
Margaret of Antioch

Bernhard Strigel, Northern Renaissance

Sensuality
       
     
Sensuality

Franz Stuck, 1891, Private Collection, image via WikiArt

Die Sünde (The Sin)
       
     
Die Sünde (The Sin)

Franz Stuck, 1893, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, image via WikiArt

Isis with Serpent Tail
       
     
Isis with Serpent Tail

Egypt, 2nd century A.D., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, image via Wikimedia Commons courtesy of LACMA

Snake Goddess
       
     
Snake Goddess

Judy Chicago, Snake Goddess Place Setting (from The Dinner Party), 1979; Mixed media; Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Photo courtesy of Betty Boyd Dettre Library & Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts; © Judy Chicago