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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Balla has received more than 408,622 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Giacomo Balla is the 230th most popular painter (up from 244th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from Italy (up from 805th in 2019) and the 64th 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

Among painters, Giacomo Balla ranks 230 out of 1,421Before him are Jacopo Bellini, Raoul Dufy, Jan Matejko, Ferdinand Hodler, Luca Giordano, and Charles-François Daubigny. After him are John Everett Millais, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Lorenzo Lotto, Judith Leyster, Hubert van Eyck, and Georges Rouault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Giacomo Balla ranks 19Before him are Ioannis Metaxas, Grazia Deledda, Elena of Montenegro, Lesya Ukrainka, Heinrich Mann, and Theodore Dreiser. After him are Georges Rouault, František Kupka, Émile Borel, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Maurice Garin, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. Among people deceased in 1958, Giacomo Balla ranks 18Before him are Ernest Lawrence, Lion Feuchtwanger, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Maurice Gamelin, Milutin Milanković, and G. E. Moore. After him are Rudolf von Laban, Georges Rouault, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Edna Purviance, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 776 out of 4,668Before him are Luca Giordano (1634), Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938), Alexius of Rome (400), Donatella Versace (1955), Scholastica (480), and Aldo Rossi (1931). After him are Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Vitiges (475), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Pope Leo V (870), and Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 64Before him are Pinturicchio (1454), Lorenzo di Credi (1459), Andrea Pozzo (1642), Bernardo Bellotto (1721), Jacopo Bellini (1396), and Luca Giordano (1634). After him are Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Pietro Lorenzetti (1280), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485), Francesco Guardi (1712), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), and Gentile da Fabriano (1370).