God said to the serpent ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life’. To the woman he said ‘I will make your pains in childbearing severe and with painful labour you will birth children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.’ To Adam he said ‘Because you listened to your wife ate the fruit, cursed is the ground because of you. Through painful toil you will eat food and it will produce thorns and thistles. You will work the fields by the sweat of your brow and you will eat your food until you return to the dust of the ground from where you came.’
Richard LEWER
God planted a garden in the east, Eden. There he put the man he formed and made all kinds of tress grow from the earth, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Richard LEWER
Study for The Vicar of Wakefield
William Powel FRITH
Outfit: Habanero halter top, Pacific pleats skirt, Hibiscus, feather and Pule headpiece and Towards a ship of new arrivals... necklace
DORIS DE PONT, Auckland (fashion house); Doris DE PONT (designer); Margo BARTON (milliner); Sofia TEKELA-SMITH
(Boy with a kite, Fitzroy)
John PERCEVAL
Middle Harbour
Margaret PRESTON
Mermaids dancing
Rupert BUNNY
Love's pilgrimage
Nikolaos GYSIS
Possum-skin cloak: Blackfella road
Lorraine Connelly-Northey
Soundsuit
Nick CAVE
God makes garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothed them. God said ‘Man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ God banished him from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out God placed a cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Richard LEWER
The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that God had made. He said to the woman ‘Did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?’. She replied ‘We may eat fruit from all the trees in the garden except for the tree in the middle of the garden or we will die’. The serpent convinces the woman she will not die and will instead gain wisdom from eating the fruit.
Richard LEWER
Buyers and sellers (Christ driving out the money changers)
Louis DUFFY
The friends
Gwen JOHN
Syncromy, Berry's Bay
Roy de MAISTRE
Measuring heights
William Powel FRITH
God said ‘It is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him’. God put Adam into a deep sleep and while he slept he took a rib from the man’s chest and closed up the wound with flesh. God made a woman from Adam’s rib. He named her Eve.
Richard LEWER
Young woman seated, with neck and shoulders uncovered
Pierre Auguste RENOIR
A monk with a book
TITIAN
The right of way
Frederick WALKER
Henry IV, King of France
Pierre FIRENS; Hendrick GOLTZIUS (after)
Soundsuit
Nick CAVE
This is the account of the heavens and then earth when they were created, when God made the earth and the heavens. No shrub had yet appeared on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the earth. Then God formed a man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life, and the man became a living being.
Richard LEWER
Adam and Eve are walking in the garden one day and hear the sound of God, they hid amongst the trees. God calls ‘where are you?’ Adam answers ‘I heard you in the garden and was afraid because I was naked so I hid.’ God said ‘How did you know you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?’ The man said ‘Eve gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ God said to Eve ‘What is this you have done?’ Eve said ‘The serpent deceived me and I ate it’.
Richard LEWER
Out of the ground God formed all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to man and asked him to name each living creature. He gave names to all the livestock, wild animals and birds in the sky.
Richard LEWER
The guitar player
Pierre Auguste RENOIR
The lobster fishers
William McTAGGART
The Clavey family in their garden at Hampstead
Arthur DEVIS
The last resting place of Coco
Pierre-Marie BEYLE
Plum blossom
Utagawa TOYOKUNI II