Most interesting are the Macchiaioli (from the verb macchiare, to blotch or stain) school of Tuscan pre-Impressionists, who met at Florence's Cafe Michelangelo in the 1860s seeking a new freedom from academic art that paralleled the political liberation of the Risorgimento.
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The Macchiaioli school met at Florence's Cafe.
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They met in the 17th century seeking a new freedom of academic art.