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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 435,750 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Giacomo Balla is the 251st most popular painter (down from 230th in 2019), the 830th most popular biography from Italy (down from 774th in 2019) and the 68th 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 251 out of 2,023Before him are Georges Rouault, Piero di Cosimo, František Kupka, Andrea del Castagno, Carel Fabritius, and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. After him are Hubert van Eyck, Federico Barocci, Ivan Kramskoi, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Salvator Rosa, and Gentile da Fabriano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Giacomo Balla ranks 21Before him are Lesya Ukrainka, Elena of Montenegro, Ioannis Metaxas, Theodore Dreiser, Georges Rouault, and František Kupka. After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Stjepan Radić, Émile Borel, Maurice Garin, and William Stern. Among people deceased in 1958, Giacomo Balla ranks 20Before him are Rudolf von Laban, Maurice de Vlaminck, Lion Feuchtwanger, Maurice Gamelin, G. E. Moore, and Georges Rouault. After him are Abul Kalam Azad, Ernst Heinkel, Alfred Weber, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, André Bazin, and Kim Tu-bong.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 830 out of 5,161Before him are Andrea del Castagno (1420), Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751), Berengar II of Italy (900), Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Riccardo Muti (1941), and Errico Malatesta (1853). After him are Giovanni Gentile (1875), Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), Donatella Versace (1955), Julia (-76), Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444), and Riccardo Giacconi (1931).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giacomo Balla ranks 68Before him are Jacopo Bellini (1396), Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485), Il Sodoma (1477), Piero di Cosimo (1462), and Andrea del Castagno (1420). After him are Federico Barocci (1535), Salvator Rosa (1615), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), Francesco Hayez (1791), Giorgio Morandi (1890), and Rosalba Carriera (1673).