Paradise with the Creation of Adam and the Fall of Man

This painting is monogrammed B and dated 1576. The anonymous painter is referred to as Monogrammist B of 1576, but he is perhaps identical with Joost de Beer (active 1550, d. before 1595 in Utrecht). He transformed Dürer's famous Adam and Eve engraving into a panel painting. He placed the Fall of Man scene into the centre of a paradise landscape. In the distant background the episode of Creation of Adam can be seen.