The new Inter Milan t-shirt inspired by the art of Caravaggio

The aesthetic history of Inter Milan has experienced important stages, but few of the value of the season ticket campaign for the 2018-19 season. The work created by Juan Garrigosa takes up the last verse of Inferno from Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia and in that claim "A riveder le stelle" there is all the essence of a transformation that has brought Inter to high levels. Art returns once again to the center of Nerazzurri history, with jerseys that try to bring glocal culture - mixing Milanese, Italian and international ones - to football jerseys, with alternating but always courageous and daring results.

Inter Milan have not yet formalized the new jerseys - most likely due to the indecision on the new jersey sponsor - but the leaks that bounce over the last twenty days are increasingly real. But waiting for the new 2021-22 kits that in all likelihood will recall the club's iconic Biscione skin, Nike has launched a jersey with the Italian Champions that gives some more clues about the artistic direction of the Nerazzurri. The t-shirt, available only for a few hours on Zalando Italia before being removed, takes inspiration from the first historic advertisement (directed by Mario Guay) that formalized the passage of Inter Milan to Nike in 1997. The shirt shows a huge black and blue that puts to flight the allegorical figures of the historic opponents of Inter such as AS Roma (wolf), AC Milan (devils), Juventus (zebre), SS Lazio (eagle), Torino FC (bull) and Cagliari Calcio (with four blind as the symbol of the four Moors).

The resulting campaign was a tribute to Italian art and above all to Caravaggio, retracing his style and his exciting use of allegorical figures. It is precisely the allegory, as Alberto Mariani recalls in the last article of Bauscia Cafè, that is the central element in the renewed and in some ways extreme aesthetics of Inter Milan. From Ettore Sottsass to Caravaggio, from Juan Garrigosa to Dominique Gaucher (designer of the 1999 poster) for an Inter Milan that is tracing new paths and new paths, respecting the authenticity of its history and as @rupertgraphic recalls "trying to fill the very serious lack of culture that there is on soccer jerseys".