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Original – The Fall of Man from the left panel of the Vienna Diptych by the Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes. Painted in the second half of the 15th century, it shows Serpent as a bipedal salamander-like creature because it was assumed that the serpent could walk before God's curse compelled it to crawl and eat dust. Such depiction of the Serpent was introduced into art in the late 13th century and was later generally abandoned by the Renaissance artists.
Reason
This particular Fall of Man is interesting because of salamander-like bipedal tempting Serpent, which in later depictions would become the ordinary snake we got used to. I haven't spotted a good digitization of the right panel, though.
Articles in which this image appears
Vienna Diptych
FP category for this image
Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Hugo van der Goes

Promoted File:Hugo van der Goes - The Fall of Man and The Lamentation - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:45, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]