I Macchiaioli. Arte italiana verso la modernità

The group exhibition explores the antecedents, origins and path of the Macchiaioli painters, spanning the experimentation years of the 1850s and the masterpieces of the 1860s. With a selection of more than eighty works from Italian museums and private institutions, I Macchiaioli. Arte italiana verso la modernità documents the artistic dialogue established between painters from different parts of Italy, such as Tuscany, Piedmont and Liguria, recording exhaustively the history of the movement. It also establishes an original comparison between Macchiaioli works and pieces from the 19th-century collection at the GAM, offering new possibilities for the modern research.