Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara is exhibiting masterpieces from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and other major collections
Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Mondrian: names that mark the milestones of an epoch-making turning point. In less than eighty years, between the 19th and 20th centuries, European painting shifted from the direct observation of nature to the dissolution of reality.
At the heart of this narrative, the landscape – both natural and urban – and modern life become the vantage point for an era in which the relationship between the artist and the visible world was radically redefined, paving the way for new ways of perceiving and representing reality.
The exhibition brings to life an extraordinarily rich period of ferment, experimentation and talent, through the works of the great figures of modern European painting.
Among them are Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Paul Signac, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Alongside them are the Italian masters: Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Pellizza da Volpedo, Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Giovanni Boldini, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Mario Sironi.
