GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
(b. ca. 1399, Siena, d. 1482, Siena)

The Creation and the Expulsion from the Paradise (detail)

c. 1445
Tempera and gold on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The picture shows the right side of the panel where in a separate scene set in a meadow filled with flowers, Adam and Eve walk to the right against a line of seven trees with golden fruit. Their heads turn back toward a naked angel, who expels them from Paradise.