Entirely new in Italy, the exhibition focuses on the more than fifty artists who participated in the eight official Impressionist exhibitions, some of them never before exhibited in the peninsula. It also intends to bring to the attention of the general public the research and experimentation born of the revolutionary innovations that shook the world in the late 19th century, particularly in France but not only. Those years saw the birth of electricity, the first aerostatic flights, the first subway, big industry, streetcars, major rail links, and will see the towering Eiffel Tower, a masterpiece of new engineering, erected for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. Also in those years, photography and cinema will appear for the first time, forcing artists to find new forms of expression by breaking away from the rigid and now obsolete vision of academic art. The exhibition is divided into three paths: The first is devoted to the precursors, from Ingres to Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Corot and the echoes of the École de Barbizon. The second opens with photographs from Nadar's legendary Studio and traces the evolution of the protagonists of the eight official exhibitions of Impressionism from the one in 1874 to the last in 1886. The third is devoted to the post-Impressionists or to artists who, although they did not participate in the official exhibitions, breathed its instances, such as Firmin-Girard, Toulouse Lautrec, Bonnard, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Cahours, Permeke and others. In the exhibition one also discover all the techniques they used and experimented with, from oil painting, pastel, drawing to ceramics, sculpture to the extraordinary graphic researches of reproduction with Cliché-Verre, etchings, lithographs, up to photographic experiments.