Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Paris exhibit asks: Was there an Italian Monet?

A visitors looks at the painting ''After Lunch" (La Pergola),1868, by Silvestro Lega, at the Orangerie Museum in Paris, Tuesday April 9, 2013. A new exhibit at Paris’ Orangery museum called “The Macchiaioli: the Italian Impressionists?” explores how a Florence-based art movement that predated French impressionism by a decade was already using the themes of light, the outdoors and spontaneity that’s more associated with the likes of Monet or Renoir. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) PARIS (AP) — Years before Impressionism — the influential Paris-based art movement — began, a similar style of painting capturing colorful impressions of light may have existed in Italy, according to a new exhibit.








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