A selection of 52 masterpieces by European art's great masters from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries arrives at Rome's Ara Pacis Museum from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The exhibition "Impressionism and Beyond: Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts" will feature the pioneers of Impressionism, Degas and Renoir, the protagonists of the Parisian avant-garde, Matisse and Picasso, Van Gogh's innovations, and the experimentalists of German art, Kandinsky and Beckmann. With this exhibition, Rome receives a collection of works rarely seen outside the United States, a journey through fifty years of European creativity that brings together modernity's leading figures. This exhibition not only highlights the breadth of American collections, but also recreates the interweaving of visions, experiments, and revolutions that defined European painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Ara Pacis Museum's collection comprises European masterpieces created between the 1840s and the early 1900s, some of which entered American museum collections shortly after their execution and are currently in Italy. These paintings reflect a pivotal period in art history, characterized by tremendous shifts that helped create modern pictorial language.