Things to do in Tortona, Piedmont: The Best Museums

"il Divisionismo" is a museum space created with the purpose of documenting a period of particular significance for Italian art at the turn of the nineteenth century. It evidences the variety and originality of the pictorial language employed not only by the major protagonists of divisionism, but also by others who voiced expressions of a culture that had been long undervalued. The arrangement of the exhibition centers on the fertile dialogue created by the different masters of a bold technique that succeeded in interpreting the demands of a new century. It includes the socially committed artists of the last decade of the nineteenth century, the tentative essays in symbolism, and also the first experiments by the protagonists of the Futurist revolution, for which the divisionist technique provided the language of modernity. To masterpieces such as A May Morning and The Cut Flower by Giuseppe Pellizza, Piazza Caricamento, The Gulf of Genoa, The Strike, Early Morning in the Workshop, and Olive Trees at Albaro by Plinio Nomellini, I remember when I was a Girl, and Incensum Domino! by Angelo Morbelli, The Sower and Last Pastures by Carlo Fornara, Young Girl Selling Fruit by Emilio Longoni, The Hay Harvest by Giovanni Segantini, The Way to the Calvary and The Adoration of the Magi by Gaetano Previati, When the Little Birds Go to Roost by Vittore Grubicy, must be added other works of considerable originality by less famous artists, like Benvenuto Benvenuti, Galileo Chini, Giuseppe Cominetti, Giovanni Battista Crema, Camillo Innocenti, Giorgio Kienerk, Baldassare Longoni, Guglielmo Amedeo Lori, Serafino Macchiati, Cesare Maggi, Giuseppe Mentessi, Matteo Olivero, Angelo Torchi.