Città di Castello Gonfalone 02

God the Father, draped in red and blue robes, leans over the reclining figure of Adam to draw Eve from his side. The young Adam lies in a deep sleep, his lower body covered by a sprig of leaves, set against a distant, verdant landscape. This processional banner fragment is heavily weathered, showing extensive loss of the original paint layer across the entire surface.

The creation of woman from man was a central theme in Renaissance Neoplatonism, often linked to the idea of the 'Androgynous Adam' found in both the Kabbalah and Plato’s Symposium. Thinkers like Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola saw this biblical event as a metaphor for the soul's division and its subsequent yearning for primordial unity.