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Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is the biblical earthly paradise created by God to be inhabited by his first human creation - Adam and Eve. Some claim that the name “Eden” derives from the Akkadian term edinu, which means 'plain'. In the biblical tradition...
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Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden by Jan Brueghel de Oude & Peter Paul Rubens. Early 17th century CE. (The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands)
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Garden Fresco, Livia's Villa, Rome
A section of the garden fresco from the triclinium or dining room from Livia's Villa, Rome, 1st century BCE. The fresco runs around all four walls and gives a 360° panorama of a luxuriant garden with birds and insects against a brilliant...
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Garden at Sainte-Adresse by Monet
An 1867 oil on canvas painting, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. This was a fashionable resort on the northern coast of France near Le Havre. The three bands of terrace, sea, and sky...
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Garden Fresco in the Oplontis Villa Poppaea
Second Pompeian Style painting on the walls surrounding the viridarium (small garden) of the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis (Italy).
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Garden Painting, Tomb of Nebamun
Tomb painting representing the pool in Nebamun's estate garden, Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400 BCE.
The British Museum, London.
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Garden of Hesperides
Garden of Hesperides, oil on canvas by Albert Herter, 19th century.
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Garden of the Fullonica of Stephanus
The garden area of the Fullonica of Stephanus, which had been converted to the drying area of the laundry, Pompeii.
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Garden Statuette of Silvanus
This statuette of the Roman god Silvanus dates from the 1st century CE, and it is made from marble. In ancient times, the garden represented a tamed space — a small-scale version of nature. Its fertility and abundance spoiled over into the...
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The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole
The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole. 19th century CE. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA)