The cat, the goat and the serpent among the details of a painting of Adam and Eve
The Fall of Man, Hendrick Goltzius, 1616.
I cannot decide which detail is my favourite: the cat who would rather not witness this disgrace, the peeping goat, or the rosy-cheeked serpent-tempter with the face of Jennifer Coolidge. But it is certainly not Adam and Eve, straight off the substitutes' bench of lovers


