Abstract
TheWalters Museum in Baltimore houses a Temptation of Adam and Eve attributed to Giovanni Della Robbiathat is notable in two respects: itwas apparently commissioned to commemorate the entry of Pope Leo X intoFlorence in November 1515 and it contains what may be the earliest European representation of corn. Thispaper connects this most unexpected inclusion to both the iconography of the work and the fashioning ofLeo X’s papacy. The paper argues that the inclusion of corn in Della Robbia’s depiction of the Fall ofMan mustbe understood in terms of period ideas of palingenesis, the New World, and Leo’s standing as a Christusmedicus who will restore the Church and bring about a new Golden Age.
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