In Padua Palazzo Zabarella the exhibition of the Macchiaioli painters: Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Vincenzo Cabianca, Adriano Cecioni.

The Macchiaioli (literally, patch- or spot-makers), was a group of Italian artists based in Tuscany during the second half of the 19th century, formed more than a decade before the French Impressionists. Their work was influenced by Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, the painters of the Barbizon School, and other 19th-century plein-air painters whose work they saw on their visits to Paris, especially in the Exposition universelle of 1855.