The upper part of the serpent has a woman's form, and the junction is most admirably managed after the manner of the sea maidens in Graeco-Roman art.

In this story is the only foreground tree in full leaf ever painted by Michael Angelo, and yet it is as supreme as everything else.

It is remarkable that the Paradise of Michael Angelo should be such a rocky place, like the side of a marble mountain, for in his time such places were regarded with distaste.

The landscape into which Adam and Eve are expelled is a lone flat desert, where no marble could be found.

This part of the composition is taken almost exactly from Massaccio's version in the Brancacci Chapel.
The Sacrifice of Noah fills the next, a smaller compartment.