This image is from a book with biblical history made around 1455. It contains a staggering 180 coloured drawings from the Old Testament, this one showing God creating Adam. As you can see, the decorator did not want us to see all parts Adam was given: he covered his private parts with a leaf. It was appropriate to do so, since the text itself (the Bible) mentions how a fig leaf was used for this very purpose. What is so great about this picture, however, is that the leaf is still attached to a plant.Fig leaves come from fig trees. That plant looks more like a Venus flytrap...
Image cropped from the original at Erik Kwakkel.
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