Educated on the Pre-Raphaelite and Morrisian model, and a convinced supporter of the idea of the artist who was the dispenser of beauty, Adolfo De Carolis was a painter, engraver and illustrator with a preference for genres destined for a large fruition, from the large format (the mural decoration) to the reduced format (the illustration of the book). Moving to Rome in 1892, he joined the Costiano group In Arte Libertas and collaborated with the magazine "Il Convito", alternating landscape painting with works of historical and mythological subjects in which, from the precious pre-Raphaelite and liberty cadences of the beginning, the artist will turn, at the end of the first decade of the century, towards a heroic, classi...