THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND THE VASTO CONNECTION
The Daydream- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the founders of the PreRaphaelite artistic movement of the mid-1800s was the son of Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and patriot from Vasto, Abruzzo, exiled to London where he fled to escape the persecution of the King of Naples.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the PreRaphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics who sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colors and complex compositions of 15th Century Italian art. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's art was characterized by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterized by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnets which he frequently wrote to accompany his pictures.
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