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Giacomo Balla

1871 - 1958

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Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giacomo Balla is the 319th most popular painter (down from 251st in 2019), the 1,018th most popular biography from Italy (down from 830th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Italian Painter.

Giacomo Balla is most famous for his painting entitled "The Street Light" which depicts a street light in the middle of the night.

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Among painters, Giacomo Balla ranks 319 out of 2,023. Before him are Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Daniele da Volterra, Pierre Mignard, Carl Spitzweg, Shitao, and Anton Mauve. After him are Il Sodoma, Vasily Vereshchagin, Federico Barocci, Max Beckmann, Taddeo Gaddi, and Paula Modersohn-Becker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Giacomo Balla ranks 23. Before him are Elena of Montenegro, Theodore Dreiser, Émile Borel, Georges Rouault, Maurice Garin, and František Kupka. After him are Stjepan Radić, William Stern, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Cordell Hull, and Leonid Andreyev. Among people deceased in 1958, Giacomo Balla ranks 25. Before him are Lion Feuchtwanger, G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, John Boland, and J. G. Strijdom. After him are Kim Tu-bong, Edna Purviance, André Bazin, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Ernst Heinkel, and Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 1,018 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), Francesca Caccini (1587), Elsa Morante (1912), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), and Alessandro Del Piero (1974). After him are Antipope Anacletus II (1090), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773), Luigi Riva (1944), Emma Morano (1899), and Stesichorus (-630).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 86. Before him are John William Waterhouse (1849), Masolino da Panicale (1383), Giorgio Morandi (1890), Ludovico Carracci (1555), Lorenzo Costa (1460), and Daniele da Volterra (1509). After him are Il Sodoma (1477), Federico Barocci (1535), Taddeo Gaddi (1290), Niccolò dell'Abbate (1512), Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691), and Carlo Crivelli (1430).

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