American Art Association; Tolentino, Raoul [Oth.]: Gothic and Renaissance Italian and French art: gathered by Raoul Tolentino, expert antiquarian of Rome : fourth session, April 25, 1924 (New York City: American Art Association, 1924)

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669—Set of Four Embroidered Panels
English, Sixteenth Century
The Story of The Creation. Embroidered in soft colors with greens pre-
dominant on a black background. A very rare and important set. In
the first panel God is represented three times, instructing Adam, creat-
ing the woman from the man’s body, and blessing the pair, to whom
he opens Paradise. In the second panel Adam and Eve appear under
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, in which is the serpent,
and each holds a fruit. The third panel shows the guilty pair and God
discovering them, and their expulsion from the Garden by the angel.
In this episode they are clothed. The fourth panel shows flocks and a
man plowing, the death of Abel, and the sacrifice of a lamb on the altar.
Height, 20 inches; length, 59 to 76 inches.

From the Georges Seligmann Collection, Paris.