The online lecture "Eiropas un Amerikas impresionisms: priekšteči, atbalstītāji, mantinieki" takes place via ZOOM live stream on 5 October 2026. It explores the emergence of Impressionism in Paris in April 1874, when a group of young artists presented their paintings at an independent exhibition. The lecture considers how they drew on direct impressions of reality, freed painting from academic rules and devoted it to colour and light. It also examines the artists and movements that prepared the Impressionist revolution: Turner and Bonington, the Barbizon realists, Delacroix and Courbet, the Honfleur school, and European masters of earlier centuries.