Artist: Giacomo Balla (1871 - 1958)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Futurism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Giacomo Balla studied art in his birthplace, Turin, Italy, before traveling to Paris in 1901, encountering the Impressionism and Divisionism. Balla signed the Futurist Manifesto in 1910, and began creating paintings that reflected the spirit of growth and movement of the early 20th century. By the 1920’s, Futurism had lost its appeal and novelty, and became associated with fascism. As a result, Balla turned towards abstraction in the 1930’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Giacomo Balla.

-
Giacomo Balla - Street Light c. 1910-11 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
-
Giacomo Balla - Speeding Automobile 1912 oil on wood The Museum of Modern Art Italian
-
Giacomo Balla - Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences 1913 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
-
James McNeill Whistler - Sotto Portico, San Giacomo 1879-1880 pastel and charcoal Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
-
Tiziano Vecellio Titian - Portrait of Giacomo Dolfin c. 1531 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
-
Adrien Tournachon - Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer 1857 salt print from wet Cleveland Museum of Art French
-
Dale Chihuly - Isola di San Giacomo in Falude 1996 glass and metal Columbus Museum of Art American
-
Giacomo Favretto Girl in the Window oil on canvas circa 1880
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Woman with a Dog Giacomo Ceruti (Italian, Lombard, 1698-1767)Oil on canvas; 38 x 28
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1590
-
Giacomo Piccini The Holy Family with the Young St. John and St. Catherine, after Veronese Engraving 1655
-
Giacomo Bossi Pluto, after Teodoro Matteini Engraving 18th century
-
Giacomo Guardi The Giudecca(Venice) Pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper 19th century
-
Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
-
Giacomo Brogi 5039 Pompei, Casa di Cornelio Rufo Albumen print 19th century
-
Giacomo Franco Studies of Arms and Hands, from the book Regolare per imparar a disegnar (Principles of Drawing) (Venice: Marco Sadeler, 1636) engraving 1636
-
Robert Sargent Austin S. Carlo and S. Giacomo, Rome etching 1924
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia Giacomo Andreoli (Italian, active about 1808)Ivory; 2 3/8 x
-
Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza and Church of S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
-
Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza and Church of S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
-
Giacomo Guardi Piazza with St. Mark's(Venice) Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper 19th century
-
Giacomo Guardi Piazza San Marco, Looking West (Venice) Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper 19th century
-
Giacomo Guardi The Piazzetta, Looking to the Sea (Venice) Pen and gray-brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper 19th century
-
Giacomo Maria Giovannini St. Sebastian, after Lodovico Carracci Engraving 17 - 18th century
-
Giacomo Guardi The Grand Canal,Venice at the Rialto Bridge pen andbrown ink and brown and gray washes on laid paper late 18th century
-
Giacomo Guardi Piazza San Marco with Clocktower and Cathedral (Venice) Pen and gray-brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper 19th century
-
Giacomo del Po Satan at the Gate of Hell with Sin and Death, a study for the painting The Gates of Hell Black chalk with pen and brown ink on laid paper circa 1705 - 1708
-
Palma Giovane (Jacopo Negretti) Tutelary Goddess of the City of Rome, from the series De excellentia et nobilitate delineationis libri duo (Principles of Drawing) (Rome: Giacomo Franco, 1611) Etching circa 1611
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child, ca. 1495-1500 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese,
-
Giacomo Lauro The Deeds of Pope Urban VIII Engraving 1624
-
Giacomo Ceruti - Portrait of a Priest early 1730's oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Federigo Gonzaga (1500-1540), 1510 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active
-
Giacomo Ceruit - Mother and Child c. 1730 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
-
Giacomo Manzu - Bust of a Woman 1979 pastel Arkansas Arts Center Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Roch, altarpiece, 1502 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active
Museum of Fine Arts -
©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Giacomo Manzù USA, 1970 Photograph,
-
Giovanni Battista Franco The Flagellation Engraving 16th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1729
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1736
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Il Ritratto di Venezia, 1684 Author: Domenico Martinelli (active 1663-1669)Venice: Presso Gio. Giacomo Hertz, 1684Printed
-
Giovanni Battista Franco Moses Drawing Water from the Rock Etching and engraving 16 - 17th century
-
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio Mars and Venus, after Gian Giacomo Caraglio's engraving after Rosso Fiorentino Engraving 1575
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1715 - 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1715 - 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet glass 1740 - 1765
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717-1794) in the Guise of a Huntsman with His Wife (Ernestine Aloisia
-
Giacomo Verzelini Champagne glass glass circa 1735
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass circa 1700
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass circa 1710
-
Giacomo Verzelini Champagne glass glass 1730 - 1740
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1740 - 1765
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1740 - 1765
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1740 - 1765
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1690 - 1700
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1710 - 1720
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1710 - 1720
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1735 - 1760
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1735 - 1760
-
Giacomo Verzelini Jelly glass glass circa 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1740 - 1750
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Champagne glass glass circa 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass mid 18th century
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1715 - 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1715 - 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1710 - 1720
-
Giacomo Verzelini Wine glass glass 1690 - 1700
Museum of Fine Arts -
Giacomo Maria Giovannini, Italian, 1667 –1717 After Lodovico Carracci, Italian, 1555-1619 Recto: Two Caryatid Groups
-
Giacomo Verzelini Goblet (with Dutch engrvaing) glass 1735 - 1760
-
Giacomo Verzelini Champagne glass or sweetmeat dish glass circa 1725
-
Giacomo Verzelini Champagne glass or sweetmeat dish glass circa 1725
-
Camilo Graffico The Entombment, after Giulio Clovio Engraving 1588
-
Arthur Pond [An army on the battlefield] E Museo Domini Ricardi Houlditch 1735
-
Ladislaus Rupp Interno del Pantheon In Oggi S. Maria ad... 18th - 19th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Interno del Pantheon In Oggi S. Maria ad... 18th - 19th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Veduta Esterna della Basilica di S. Giovanni... 18th - 19th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Interno del Duomo di Milano Etching and aquatint 18th - 19th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Veduta Interna della Basilica di S. Giovanni... 18th - 19th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Il Duomo di Milan, Cathedral of Milan Etching and aquatint 18th - 19th century
-
Anonymous Twelve small grotesque heads mounted on a sheet with Studies of Heads Engraving 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) After the Battle oil on canvas circa 1660
-
Domenico de Rubeis (Rossi) [Map of Italy]~Map - Latium antiquim (map of antique Rome and her environs) hand colored map on paper 1745
-
Domenico de Rubeis (Rossi) [Map of Spain and Italy]~Map - Patrimonio di S. Petro (map of the Papal territory) hand colored map on paper 1745
-
Guillaume Courtois The Raising of Lazarus Etching mid 17th century
-
Ladislaus Rupp Interna della Chiesa di St. Stefano Metropolitan di Sienna Etching and aquatint 18th - 19th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) One from a Set of eight battle scenes, small Etchings 17th century
-
Jacques Courtois (le Bourguignon) Battle Between Turks and Christians oil on canvas circa 1660
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome, 1500-10 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (1)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Balla

Sprengel Museum: Noise from the Street: Italian Futurism from 1909 to 1918
In this country there has so far been no in-depth reflection on this movement so important for Italian and European art of the 20th century. The reasons for this are manifold. First and foremost, the Futurists (...

Further Artwork and Information:

Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla Online
Artisti: Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla artist portrait, brief biography and art
20th Century Sculpture: Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla, Catalogo generale | Fonte dAbisso
ARTINVEST2000®GIACOMO BALLA
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Balla - Biography
HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results
Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: