Adolfo Tommasi

Many newspaper printed bitter criticism, even calling it the work of a madman, and it was also censured by Enrico Panzacchi, but others gave it large commendations.

[2] Having learned the technique of painting from life (dal vero, that is, outdoors, outside the studio, and from direct observation), he presented a markedly naturalistic work at a show of the Società Donatello in 1880 and took part over the following years in the national exhibitions held in Turin (1884), Venice (1887) and Bologna (1888).

In 1884 at Turin, exhibits: il fischio del vapore (The Steam Whistle), acquired by the Government for the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna of Rome.

Camillo Boito in the journal New Anthology noted it mixed modern machinery with simple peasant images.

He painted a series of views of ancient villas and gardens at the end of the century and experimented during his last years of activity with a mixed technique of oils and pastel.