Albrecht Dürer's Fall of Man (Adam and Eve) (1510)

The Allen Memorial Art Museum describes this engraving as follows:

The static, almost iconic grandeur of the image is the result of Dürer's preoccupation with conveying not merely the drama of the biblical narrative, but also the ideal proportions of the human form. Throughout his career Dürer was fascinated with ideal form in the human figure; his systematic study culminated in Bücher von menschlicher Proportion .... The nearly symmetrical frontal poses of Adam and Eve in The Fall of Eve were carefully calculated to demonstrate idealized, canonical proportions of the nude to a Northern audience unfamiliar with the classical norms of beauty.