It was 15 April 1874 when in Paris 30 young painters, rejected by the official Salon which brought together artists linked to the Académie des Beaux-Arts for their extreme use of color. Among them Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne, to name a few.
Those same works and many others - 130 in total - will now be in the exhibition ''Paris 1874. The Impressionist Instant'' at the Musee d'Orsay, which already has the largest collection of Impressionists in the world - until 14 July. In Rome, ''Impressionists - The dawn of modernity'' is the anthology at the Historical Infantry Museum (until 28 July), with over 160 works by 66 artists, among which stand out Degas, Manet, Renoir and the Italian De Nittis. The Monet exhibition is dedicated to the long journey through nature and painting undertaken by the father of painting, through sixty works.