Women in the Bible

Eve (1889) looks really lost on this painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).

Adam and Eve a 1956 movie directed by Alberto Gout.

Adam and Eve (c. 1620) by the Italian painter Guido Reni (1575-1642). This painting from the heyday of the baroque era is nearly perfectly...

Cameron Diaz in the movie "Bad Teacher" (2011). She poses as the eternal seductress, the bad woman, offering the evil apple.

This photo "les dompteuses" in numero 23 may 2001 by the fashion photographer Mert Alas is another new interpretation of the old...

The Woman, the Man and the Serpent; (1911) by the English painter John Byam Shaw (1872-1919).

A modern fantasy version of the old myth of the seductress by the artist Mutabor. I'm not surprised that she's a redhead.

A Poster of the tv-series Desperate Housewives uses the old symbol of the apple which automatically includes seduction, the serpent and so o...

The old snake-woman myth still proves useful selling movies. It's Eva and the snake, they are two sides of the same coin.

Adam and Eve by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1533). Here Eve is downright feeding Adam and the snake seems h...

Eve (1911) by the British painter John Collier (1850-1934).

The British actresses Rachel Weisz and Rhona Mitra with snakes. Despite it looks quite fashionable it’s not least a modern interpretation of...

Eve (1896) by the French artist Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953). Levy-Dhurmer was a Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter and shows here a femme fat...

The Sin (1893) by the German symbolist painter Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). The snake and the women are here inseparably interwoven, they ar...

Probably the most inconsistent and multifaceted icon of all bible women is the women with the snake. In her person are blending various myth...