The Renaissance was a period of rebirth in the arts. Yet this does not suggest that
             the new techniques and styles came directly from this period but rather an integration of
             old methods and new. This resulted in realistic, vivid, and emotional portals in works of
             art. Such example is the engraving titled "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Dürer. It was
             created in c1504 during the Renaissance period. Throughout this period the ideas formed
             were expressed in music, the arts, and literature.
             Dürer was a religious man like many of the Early Renaissance Artists. This
             the engraving shows the event when Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of the Tree of
             Knowledge. In the beginning, many people were still illiterate and could not decipher the
             bible by themselves. So many portraits were made to become a "visual bible."
             This black and white engraving depicts when Eve breaks off a branch from the
             Forbidden Tree, and Adam is outstretching his hand to accept the fruit. They are lying
             against the tree while the Four animals assembled around the tree. The animals are the
             cat, ox, rabbit, and elk. They represent the medieval idea of the four temperaments, which
             were the four bodily fluids that determined one's "essence"; their soul and destiny.
             Dürer portrays Adam and Eve rather realistically which corresponds with the
             Renaissance idea of humanism. Renaissance artists decided to go back to the Greek and
             Roman methods of art but with a mixture of secular and religious theme. Adam and Eve
             are sculpted in the round, figure appears to be able to be viewed 360degrees across. Dürer
             extensively used the concept of perspective, the representation of solid objects into the
             deception that they are actually three-dimensional. An example in the engraving is how
             the trees and house farther away from the Tree and figures become smaller and smaller
             till the point of it almost vanishing.
             Both Adam and Eve h...