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 The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise - Michel Angelo

" The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise ", one of the central fresco painting panels by Michel Angelo (1475-1564) on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. It shows Adam and Eve taking the forbidden fruit and being expelled from the Garden. The serpent, with the head of a woman, is coiled around the Tree of Knowledge.


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