The Neapolitan Roots of a New Vision Naples provides the first scene. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts serves as the training ground where Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo refines his technical foundation. His early years are shaped by the classical rigor of Italian instruction, yet a restlessness begins to take hold. This is not a story of static tradition, but of movement across oceans. The transition occurs in the early 20th century. Dattilo-Rubbo migrates to Australia, carrying with him the weight of European modernist ideas. He arrives in a landscape where the visual arts are on the cusp of a signifi…