Of Nicholas D’Adamo
VASTO – The Vastesi who travel in London until September 24 they will be lucky to be able to enjoy it at Tate Great Britain the great exhibition entitled “The Rossettis”, completely dedicated to great painter Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to his wife Elisabeth Siddal and her sister Christina Rossetti. An exhibition that makes us proud if we think that they are two sons and daughter-in-law of our great Gabriele Rossetti, to which Vasto has dedicated its main square and other institutions.
The London retrospective illustrates the romanticism and radicalism of the three members of the family lipsticks, put they highlight his revolutionary approach to life, love and art.
His contribution to the Pre-Raphaelite movement is presented with more than 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, poems and more.
Tate Britain presents the exhibition as follows: «The Rossettis led a progressive counterculture, fusing the past and present to reinvent art and life for a rapidly changing modern world. The sons of an exiled Italian revolutionary, they grew up in London in a family of scholars and began their artistic career as a teenager.». Adding that essentially the Pre-Raphaelite movement started the first British avant-garde movement, rebelling against the Royal Academy’s dominance of style and artistic content; and that “more personal forms of revolution are explored through the Rossettis’ refusal to respect the limitations of Victorian society.”
Alongside art and poetry, visitors to the Tate exhibition can see how The Rossettis’ pioneering new lifestyles transformed domestic interiors through contemporary furniture, clothing and design. We wanted to emphasize the scope of the event just to say that It could be convenient for Vasto to claim the origin of the Rossetti.
Actually some attempts have been made in the past, from the conference “The Rossetti between Italy and England”, organized by Professor juan olive back in 1982, to arrive more recently, in 2008, at the exhibition organized with scant funds by the curator, architect Francesco Paolo D’Adamo entitled “The Rossetti between Vasto and London: homage to Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, with the exhibition of the masterpiece “Beata Beatrix” and lesser materials from the Pre-Raphaelites; and the subsequent commitment of Professor Oliva with the initiatives of Rossetti Study Center, rightly focused more on the figure of his father Gabriele than on the artistic successes of his children Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.
But it should be noted that in recent years Dante Gabriel Rossetti has taken flight: exhibitions on the Pre-Raphaelites multipliedhis refined painting has been rediscovered, their harmonious figures are often exploited not only in art exhibitions, but Also in different fields like advertising. His notoriety has skyrocketed since the 1960s, when few of us in London admired the canvases of him in the Pre-Raphaelite room at the Tate Gallery, as it was called then, a stone’s throw from the Villa dei Cesari, acquaintance restaurant on the Thames of Vasto Othello Scipioni.
Basically today there millions of people in the world That admire the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and our city whose land of origin could be inserted in the long wave of this success, useful to place Vasto among the important cities of culture, to promote cultural exchanges and promote tourism and the economy, also taking advantage of consolidated low-cost flights Pescara-London.
and thegood occasion Come to May 2028 when they will surely be the celebrations for the bicentenary of the artist’s birth. The date seems distant, but it is getting closer for an international event, whose program is being worked on years before.
So from now to 2026 the municipal administration, if you want to carve out a minimal space like “Vasto, ciudad de los Rossetti”, you have the necessary time to establish relations with foreign countries and to agree with the Province, Region and Ministry of Culture program and financial support.
In this type of international events improvisation does not exist. The end result could be a “Welcome back home, Mr. Rossetti!”, which is not a trivial matter.
