What Nationality
Were Adam and Eve?
A Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and
Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden.
"Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Brit. "They
must be British."
"Nonsense," the Frenchman disagrees. "They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French."
"No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have
only an apple to eat, and they're being told this is paradise. They are Russian."
Titian,
Adam and Eve, c. 1550. Madrid, Prado