The Expulsion from Eden

The mighty epic song unfolded by Jacopo della Quercia in the Bologna reliefs, emulated perhaps only by Masaccio and Michelangelo, shuns every descriptive detail and concentrates its expressive vehemence, with the utmost concision and essentiality, on the protagonists of the stories, prototypes of a new progeny of heroic stamp, yet already burdened with a primordial anguish.