I Macchiaioli

The exhibition "I Macchiaioli" - produced and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Blu and MondoMostre, with the contribution of Fondazione Pisa, curated by Francesca Dini, an art historian and one of the most authoritative experts on this movement - traces the exciting evolution and at the same time revolution of the Macchiaioli, who gave birth to one of the most original avant-garde movements in Europe in the second half of the 19th century.

A retrospective of more than 130 masterpieces from usually inaccessible private collections and major museum institutions such as the Uffizi Galleries, the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, the Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.

The exhibition project allows us to discover the exciting adventure of a group of young progressive painters, both Tuscan and non-Tuscan, who during the Risorgimento give rise to a renewal in an anti-academic key of Italian painting in a realist sense.
Indeed, these artists manage to write one of the most poetic and daring pages of art history, not only Italian. Through their "key" works, their intimate look at the reality contemporary to them and their anti-heroic and deeply human vision of the Risorgimento emerge. The focus of the exhibition remains to show the movement's ability to collectively question itself and steer the rudder to continue on the road of progress and modernity without ever abandoning the major path of light.