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Eve makes a fatal pact with the devil, represented by the
serpent, and death. For she brought death to human kind, according to the
interpretation of many Church Fathers and later theologians.
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woman is an expression of Eve. Her seductive beauty leads to sin and
death.
Oil on wood, 1512, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa.
Painting by German artist Hans Baldung Grien from Gmünd
in Schwabia (ca 1484 - 1545).
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