 This localized landscape movement reacted against the bourgeois stylings of the academic genre painters.While sympathetically connected to (and actually pre-dating) the French Impressionists, the Macchiaioli did not make the same impact upon international art culture as did the contemporaries and followers of Monet, and are today largely forgotten outside Italy.Modigliani's connection with the movement was through Guglielmo Micheli, his first art teacher.