Article: D'Annunzio and Alma-Tadema: between pre-raphaelitism and aestheticism.

In any consideration of the diffusion of Pre-Raphaelitism in nineteenth-century Italian art, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) stands out as a central figure. D'Annunzio went through a distinct Pre-Raphaelite phase in the 1880s and gave a decisive impulse to the spread of Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy: his Pre-Raphaelite imagery influenced the young artists who illustrated his collection of poems, Isaotta Guttadauro, in 1885, and induced them to adopt a style which both derived from and reacted to D'Annunzio's; he introduced the Italian painter Giulio Aristide Sartorio to the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and he favoured the diffusion of a Pre-Raphaelitism fashionable in Rome ...

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