BEHAM, Hans Sebald
(b. 1500, Nürnberg, d. 1540, Frankfurt)

Tree of Faith, Love, and Good Works

1525
Woodcut
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This woodcut illustrates the unity of faith, love, and work in a picture of the Christian Tree of Faith, as distinct from Adam and Eve's Tree of the Fall of Man. The first line of verse beneath reads: 'Faith is the tree, and work the fruit.'