Falling Man

Philadelphia artist Emlen Etting returned again and again to the theme of Icarus Falling, in part because it gave him an opportunity to depict the nude male in motion.

Beautifully modeled, cast and patinated, this bronze rondel features the head in profile of a young man with hair falling over his forehead, a strong nose, and sensitive mouth, proba...

As with all great works of art, falling man succeeds in deeply engaging a viewer and evoking more questions than answers.”

The carving uses a specific vertical timeline format, typical of traditional Ethiopian narrative art, contrasting the Old Covenant’s Fall of Man” with the New Covenant’s Salvation th...

This rare and evocative motif alludes directly to the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden, linking original sin with Christ’s redemptive sacrifice on the Cross.

Recalling the Biblical Fall of Man, the instrument of humanity’s sudden expulsion from the Garden of Eden is lusciously ripe in the foreground, complete with Eve’s bite.

The woman waited until the end of a lavish banquet organised in honour of Holofernes and, after seducing him, waited for the man to fall asleep before killing him. Here we see her de...

Jacobs — a sustained rain and water sequence: figures running in heavy rain, a man falling into dark water ("PLATCH"), underwater swimming panels, a rescue from the water, a final ra...

Artist CommentsThis primitive-style painting captures a man and woman strolling with their pets on a radiant fall day.

Rare F/W 2005 Alexander McQueen Fair-Isle boiled wool Sweater / cardigan Designer: Alexander McQueen Brand: Alexander McQueen Collection: Fall / winter 2005 «The Man Who Knew Too Muc...

The decorative title cartouche in the upper left corner is especially notable, depicting the serpent entwined in the apple tree, symbolizing the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden. Fi...

Artist CommentsArtist Libby Ramage presents an autumnal scene marked by large leaves falling from the sky. "As the sun fades, a young boy becomes the man," says Libby.

The iguana has tears falling and circling around the man's feet. The lizard's tongue is recreated multiple times as it circles around the man and connects the man's mouth to his, cr...

The Narcissus is deeply connected to Greek mythology, particularly the myth of Narcissus, a handsome young man who, upon falling in love with his own reflection in a pond, drowned wh...

This subject was often portrayed, especially during the Renaissance, due to the depiction of naked bodies. If the Fall of Man is a turning away from God, Thoma emphasizes what separa...

The natural cycles of life illustrate the rise and fall of man. Birth, growth, maturity, and eventually death are part of the universal human experience.

The natural cycles of life illustrate the rise and fall of man. Birth, growth, maturity, and eventually death are part of the universal human experience.

The natural cycles of life illustrate the rise and fall of man. Birth, growth, maturity, and eventually death are part of the universal human experience.

Original vintage music advertising poster - Queen Innuendo new album out now - featuring a colourised lithograph by the French illustrator and caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard...

The natural cycles of life illustrate the rise and fall of man. Birth, growth, maturity, and eventually death are part of the universal human experience.

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'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, concerning the biblical Fall of Man, with the temptation of Adam and Even, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Drawn towards this theme during the pandemic when the lack of community was felt by many around the world, this personal experience led him to dive deeper into how ideas of community...

Drawn towards this theme during the pandemic when the lack of community was felt by many around the world, this personal experience led him to dive deeper into how ideas of community...

Drawn towards this theme during the pandemic when the lack of community was felt by many around the world, this personal experience led him to dive deeper into how ideas of community...

Drawn towards this theme during the pandemic when the lack of community was felt by many around the world, this personal experience led him to dive deeper into how ideas of community...

Drawn towards this theme during the pandemic when the lack of community was felt by many around the world, this personal experience led him to dive deeper into how ideas of community...

"Le Bouquet tout fait (The Ready-made Bouquet)" is a color lithograph after a 1954 original painting by Rene Magritte. A bourgeois "little man" faces away from the viewer looking tow...

(The rose is the flower associated with the Virgin Mary, who is the "mystical rose," the one that does not bear the "thorn of sin") At the feet of the Virgin are bunches of grapes (...