Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Masaccio Giovanni di Mone Cassai, fresco, 1425, Florence, Sta Maria del Carmine, Brancacci Chapel

illumanu:

15th century (ca. 1440), Northern France - Rouen

British Library

Royal 16 G V: Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées (French edition of De mulieribus claris) by Giovanni Boccaccio; illumination by the Talbot Master

fol. 5 - Eve, already mysteriously dressed, being seduced by the Serpent.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8359&CollID=16&NStart=160705

Eve is clad in gates-of-hell surcote lined in and trimmed with ermine (colloquially known as spermcloth) over a sleek ruddy kirtle edged in white. She wears a thin belt at her hips.

Anastasis (The Harrowing of Hell), 1310-20, fresco, Church of the Holy Saviour, Chora, Constantinople

In the Anastasis we see Jesus, descended into Hell (Sheol). He tramples the gates of ‘Hell,’ and beneath them lie shattered locks and keys. Darkly visible, Death lies bound and conquered, a captive.  Grabbing them firmly by the wrists, a vigorous Jesus forcefully yanks out Adam & Eve.  Adam is the oldest man in the picture, the patriarch.  Following Adam are old King David (now there’s an expert sinner…can you say Uriah and Bathsheba?  The kids know the story), young King Solomon, and John the Baptist (the ‘Forerunner’), whose long hair gives him away.  Waiting their turn behind Eve is her son Abel (the ‘Protomartyr’) with his shepherd’s crook, and (I’m guessing) Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Isaiah and Jeremiah. (source)