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In Padua, at the Zabarella Palace, the exhibition «The Macchiaioli, masterpieces of reborn Italy» presents a hundred paintings and highlights renowned artists such as Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Boldini, Silvestro Lega, but also lesser-known artists. World famous works such as those belonging to the collection of the Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, stand alongside paintings never before presented to the public.
The Macchiaioli were often misunderstood by critics and yet they were supported by patrons and personalities from the world of literature and the arts.
These men and women are present at their side in this exhibition that pays tribute to them by unveiling their portraits, their homes and the works they have commissioned. Scholars, ladies of the Tuscan aristocracy, but also the bourgeoisie, carried high this wind of freedom breaking with Neoclassicism and Romanticism..