Editing Garden of Eden (section)

==Art and literature==

=== Art ===
One of oldest depictions of Garden of Eden is made in [[Byzantine style]] in [[Ravenna]], while the city was still under Byzantine control. A preserved blue mosaic is part of the mausoleum of [[Galla Placidia]]. Circular motifs represent flowers of the garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden motifs most frequently portrayed in [[illuminated manuscript]]s and paintings are the "Sleep of Adam" ("Creation of Eve"), the "Temptation of Eve" by the Serpent, the "[[Fall of Man]]" where Adam takes the fruit, and the "Expulsion". The [[idyll]] of "Naming Day in Eden" was less often depicted. [[Michelangelo]] depicted [[:File:Michelangelo Buonarroti 022.jpg|a scene]] at the Garden of Eden on the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]].

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File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - The Garden of Eden - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Garden of Eden'' by [[Lucas Cranach der Ältere]], a 16th-century German depiction of Eden
File:Mausoleum of Galla Placidia ceiling mosaics.jpg|Fifth-century "Garden of Eden" mosaic in [[mausoleum of Galla Placidia]] in [[Ravenna]], Italy. UNESCO [[World Heritage Site]].
File:Thomas Cole - The Garden of Eden (1828).jpg|''The Garden of Eden'' by [[Thomas Cole]] (c. 1828)
File:Lilith (Carl Poellath).jpg|After wandering through the Garden of Eden, Eve takes the forbidden fruit while [[Lilith]] speaks to Adam (by [[:ko:Carl Poellath Münz- und Prägewerk Schrobenhausen|Carl Poellath]], c. 1886) 
File:Garten Eden (von Adi Holzer 2012).jpg|''The Garden of Eden'' by [[:de:Adi Holzer|Adi Holzer]] (2012)
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===Literature===
For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human [[love]] and [[sexuality]], often associated with the classic and medieval [[Trope (literature)|trope]] of the [[locus amoenus]].<ref>{{harvnb|Curtius|1953|p=200, n.31}}.</ref>

In the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'', [[Dante Alighieri]] places the Garden at the top of [[Purgatory|Mt. Purgatory]]. Dante, the pilgrim, emerges into the Garden of Eden in Canto 28 of ''[[Purgatorio]]''. Here he is told that God gave the Garden of Eden to man "in earnest, or as a pledge of eternal life," but man was only able to dwell there for a short time because he soon fell from grace. In the poem, the Garden of Eden is both human and divine: while it is located on earth at the top of Mt. Purgatory, it also serves as the gateway to the [[heaven]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dante Lab at Dartmouth College: Reader|url=http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu/reader?reader%5Bcantica%5D=2&reader%5Bcanto%5D=28|access-date=2021-11-06|website=dantelab.dartmouth.edu}}</ref>

Much of [[John Milton|Milton's]] ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' occurs in the Garden of Eden.

The first act of Arthur Miller's 1972 play [[The Creation of the World and Other Business|''Creation of the World and Other Business'']] is set in the Garden of Eden.