The exhibition "Zandomeneghi and Degas. Impressionism between Florence and Paris", hosted at Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo, brings together two central figures of European painting at the end of the 19th century: Federico Zandomeneghi and Edgar Degas. The exhibition tells the story of the encounter between the Italian artistic experience and the Parisian cultural environment, highlighting how the comparison between the two artists contributed to the development of a new pictorial sensibility.

Through famous masterpieces and exceptional loans, the exhibition explores the transition from the 19th-century tradition to a more modern perspective on reality. Scenes of bourgeois life, domestic interiors, and daily gestures are observed with attention, capturing the truth of slow times, light, and the intimate dimension of the subjects, conveying the complexity of an era in which tradition, avant-garde, "macchia," and "impression" converge in a tight weave.

The dialogue between the works highlights affinities and differences between the two painters, offering the public the opportunity to reflect on the role of cultural exchanges between Italy and France in the birth of modern painting. The exhibition thus becomes a narrative of artistic relationships, influences, and experiments that have contributed to renewing the language of European art.