Rosettis

Rossetti's, 2023

• Tate Britain London, April 6, 2023 - September 24, 2023
• Delaware Art Museum, October 21, 2023 - January 28, 2024

It began in Italy with Gaetano Polidori, a writer who had a printing press. He had a daughter, Frances Mary Lavinia Polidor (Naples) who married Gabriele Rossetti, a "Dante specialist." The Rosettis hung out in Malta for three three years and then moved back to London. They had four children, Maria Francesca, Gabriel Charles ("Dante"), William Michael, and Christina Georgina.

Gabriel Charles married Elizabeth Siddall and William Michael married Lucy Madox Brown. 

"The Rosettis":

• the couple, Gabriel Charles and Elizabeth Siddall,
• the wife of the second couple, Lucy Madox Brown,
• and the father's fourth child, Christina Georgia.

The poets and painters played off each other, and all signed their works, "Rosetti."

Christina's first book of poetry, Verses, was published by her grandfather, Polidori in Italy.

It was said that Gabriel and Elizabeth (h/w) and Gabriel's younger sister, Christina, reinvented poetry.

The third generation: first was born in 1827; the last born in 1830 -- one child each year. Pre-French revolution; pre-US Civil War. 

Claude Monet: b. 1840; died, 1926.

The second generation: Rossetti and Polidori were married, 1826.

The first generation, the grandfather, was the famous Italian writer, Gaetous Polidori.

The brotherhood: