# Panel No. 1: Creation of Adam and Eve [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIBERTI, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm ## Commentary Panel No. 1: Creation of Adam and Eve 1425-52 Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm Baptistery, Florence Each panel of the Gates of Paradise depicts several episodes of a biblical narrative. This panel depicts the Creation of Adam at the lower left, that of Eve in the centre, the Temptation in the distance at the extreme left, and the Expulsion from the garden at the extreme right. The creation of Eve has a central place because of the doctrine that her birth from the side of Adam foretold the creation of the Church. The female nudes Ghiberti designed in the Creation are noteworthy as the first sensuous female nudes of the Renaissance. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 12 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/haydn\_creation.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Joseph Haydn: The Creation, introduction and aria</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Ascension]() - [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Christ on the Mount of Olives]() - [Door of a Ciborium \(detail\)]() - [Door of a Ciborium]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Eastern Door of the Baptistery \(Porta del Paradiso\)]() - [Five studies]() - [North Doors \(Life of Christ\)]() - [North Doors \(Life of Christ\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()