With an immediately clean and elegant impact we already understand that this drawing can be added to the precious corpus of the youthful graphic works by Ademollo for two reasons: the theme – frequently used and to which other iconographic and stylistic comparisons are proposed here – represents with efficacy the expulsion from paradise of our progenitors; and furthermore, the style – underscored in the sheets presented here – the soft and accurate style of the early 19th century Purism, interpreted by Ademollo in a pre-Romantic and Primitivist key, marking him as an outsider among the great artists of Italian Neoclassicism. Luigi Adamolli, called Ademollo, primarily found his niche of patronage, both public and private, sacred and profane, within the framework of a developing taste in the making, amid influences still reminiscent of the late 18th centuries and the establishment of the Neoclassical taste, in his case often extended to pre-Romantic incursions.

The sheet presented here offers a delicate view of Ademollo’s aesthetic on a sacred theme, illustrating Adam and Eve caught in the moment of the reproach received by God the Father, followed by the inevitable expulsion from earthly paradise.

Excerpt of the expertise by prof. Egle Radogna.