A belly button is a result of being born from a human being. Why is it that Adam and Eve have belly buttons on paintings of ancient masters?
2007-02-22 08:43:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
artistic license....
2007-02-22 08:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by silverleaf90210 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A painting is only and Artist's impression. He never saw them.
For those who believe the Bible to be historically accurate, this is not a trivial question. If Adam and Eve did not have navels, then they were not perfect human beings. On the other hand, if they had navels, then the navels would imply a birth they never experienced.
Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler are the authors of The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual (Galahad Books, 1994). In this entertaining reference work, they devote several paragraphs (pp. 146-147) to what they call "the wont theological dispute." They take this to be the acrimonious debate, which has been going on ever since the book of Genesis was written, over whether the first human pair had what Sir Thomas Browne, in 1646, called "that tortuosity or complicated nodosity we usually call the Navell."
Browns opinion was that Adam and Eve, because they had no parents, must have had perfectly smooth abdomens. In 1752, according to Felton and Fowler, the definitive treatise on the topic was published in Germany. It was tided Untersuchung der Frage: Ob unsere ersten Uraltern, Adam und Eve, einen Nabel gehabt (Examination on the Question: Whether Our First Ancestors, Adam and Eve, Possessed a Navel). After discussing all sides of this difficult question, the author, Dr. Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard, finally concluded that the famous pair were navelless.
2007-02-22 16:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 'ancient masters' probably never thought about it. It isn't like Adam and Eve posed for the paintings.
2007-02-22 08:47:32 · answer #3 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were painted by people that didn't think about such things centuries after the death of Adam and Eve.
2007-02-22 08:48:54 · answer #4 · answered by hazydaze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know they have belly buttons?Maybe you are just smarter than the ancient masters.
2007-02-22 08:46:13 · answer #5 · answered by Laura H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artistic license.
Tell me, why do you find it bothersome that some renaissance artist depicts Adam and Eve this way? How is this any kind of theologoical problem?
2007-02-22 08:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the apple the belly buttons are some of the artist inaccuracies regarding biblical events. Also if the artist used models he may have overlooked the fact.
2016-05-23 23:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible does not say anything about them having belly buttons.
2007-02-22 08:49:12 · answer #8 · answered by handsomeworshipper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause they never thought of it.
im sure the "ancient masters" never saw adam and eve in person.
2007-02-22 08:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c ancient masters didn't think about that. They assumed that A+E looked exactly like them.
2007-02-22 08:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must not belive the pictures i am an artist and i know too much artists and know too much about them we always draw the things we imagine for example leonardo davinchi he had draw jesus and his disiples in romans times dresses is this logic!!!!!!!!!!!!! we the artistst we are always like the child who like amasing very much and doing radical things and make the people wandering and think about that .
2007-02-22 08:47:34 · answer #11 · answered by OIL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋