The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guil
Adam, Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The depiction of the serpent as a mirror of Eve was common in earlier Christian iconography, which portrayed women as the source of the original sin and responsible for the fall of man.
The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise, fresco painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City (1510–1564)
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 1828 oil-on-canvas painting by Thomas Cole (1801–1848), now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, United States.
A lion-faced, serpentine deity found on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures may be a depiction of the Demiurge.