From March 30 to July 28, 2024, at the Museo Storico della Fanteria in Piazza S. Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome, the extraordinary exhibition “Impressionisti – L’alba della modernità” will be open to visitors, to celebrate 150 years of the Impressionism artistic revolution.
On display, a large gallery of paintings, drawings, watercolours, sculptures, ceramics and engravings in different styles and techniques, by artists from all over the world belonging to the fervent cultural and artistic Parisian movement of the end of the 19th century. You will admire over 160 works, mostly from private collections, by 66 artists including Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne, Gauguin and even some post-impressionist painters, such as Toulouse Lautrec. The anthology portrays the history of a new artistic style and its influencing phenomena, the industrialization, and great innovations, such us photography, cinema, electricity, and the telephone.
Three sections from the beginning of the 19th century to the mid-20th century are exhibited. In addition to oil paintings, they host several famous preparatory sketches, studies and lithographs included “Man with the Pipe” by Van Gogh or the famous ballerinas by Degas, whose bronze study sculptures on movement are displayed too.
Poster of the exhibition “Impressionists, the dawn of modernity”