The presence of her nudity is heightened further by the anatomically dramatization in which her upper body is turned towards the viewer. Eve depicts a female and is designed to be viewed on the frontal side of her body. She is only seen from one side which allows her to pose in a relaxed manner that has one elbow and one knee supporting her balance, followed by the other hand grasping for a piece of fruit. The focus of Giselbertus was the motion and proportion of the relief enabling the idea of a narrative. This lead the French sculptor to be able to convey a scene in which takes in …show more content…
Rather than feet, Eve has them replaced by a shaped devil’s pincher. The attachment of the pincher is carved upon the far-right fruit branch in which Eve has grasped a fruit from. The rest of her body is left surrounded with dotted branches surrounding her conveyed as mother nature, as she “defeats” it. The relief is left gray and old spotted with only one part in the middle of her abdomen following to the top to bottom of the border. Also, Eve was a solid lintel of 72.4cm x 129.5cm which gives enough evidence of the art piece taking the tittle of being the largest scale nude since classical times (Janson’s History Book of Art