/Eve, the Serpent, and Death
Hans Baldung Grien
By Christina Voss
At the heart of the femme fatale construct is the tension between sex and death, Eros and Thanatos. The German Renaissance painter Hans Baldung Grien imagined Eve as the original femme fatale in his Eve, the Serpent, and Death, dated to approximately 1520 (fig. 1).
Eve is depicted as a...
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