Garden of Eden Mediaeval Art Poster

The Garden of Eden c. 1410 Tempera on wood Mediaeval art by Unknown Upper Rhenish artist Depicts Mary and the Christ Child with various saints (Saint Cecilia, Saint Barbara, Saint Dorothea and Saint George) and the Archangel Michael Image from the public domain Wikimedia Commons which had the following explanation: In the legendary world of a multicoloured garden surrounded by a wall the Virgin, the Child Jesus, three holy women and three holy men have met. This enclosed garden (hortus conclusus) is the symbol of the Virgin's purity, with its peaceful mood, its protected area, its fruits and flowers, but the serpentine intertwinement of the two trunks of the trees on the left also reminds us of the Garden of Eden, the scene of the happy life of the first human couple. Even more does the picture intend to evoke the ancient, original harmony of the universe, of divine, human, animal and vegetable worlds, where sin and evil were present only in a latent, harmless form.