Adam (Lombardo)

Adam is an Italian Renaissance sculpture of c.1490–1495, a marble statue by Tullio Lombardo, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which bought it in 1936.

[1] It is of prime importance as the first lifesize nude marble sculpture since antiquity,[2][3] though Donatello's famous bronze David had preceded it by several decades.

The sculpture was made as one of several subsidiary figures, including a lost companion statue of Eve, for the tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), which was later reconfigured.

[1] On the evening of October 6, 2002 Adam, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, crashed to the floor of the Vélez Blanco patio where it was displayed, breaking it into 28 larger pieces and hundreds of small fragments.

An investigation into the disaster established this occurred when the wooden pedestal the sculpture was displayed on proved inadequate for the weight of the marble, and gave way.