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The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
1445 · Tempera and gold on wood · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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God the Father leans out of a storm of blue wings and sets one finger on the rim of the world. The Metropolitan Museum reads the globe as the universe, earth at the center, then the four elements, the planets and the zodiac, with God borne aloft by seraphim. At the right a diminutive Adam and Eve are driven from Paradise, whose four rivers issue from the ground at lower right. The angel who drives them is naked; the Met suggests his human form may symbolize compassion for fallen humankind. Giovanni di Paolo painted it for San Domenico, Siena. The one who sends them out shares their skin.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1975.1.31, read 2026-09-24 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Giovanni di Paolo, Paradise, 06.1046, read 2026-09-24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Siena 1398–1482 Siena) |
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| Date | 1445 |
| Museum | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 1975.1.31 |
| Medium | Tempera and gold on wood |
| Dimensions | Overall: 18 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (46.4 × 52.1 cm) |
| Sheet sizes | 11×14 in, 18×24 in |
| Held by | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 1975.1.31 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | The Met’s own open-access file |
| Licence | Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication |
| Master | 3,937 × 3,536 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from The Met’s own open-access file on 25 August 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,937 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.