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Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni (October 19, 1882 - August 16, 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor and a member of the futurist movement.

One of Umberto Boccioni's most famous paintings is The noise of the street enters the house in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany which featured an exhibition on futurism in 2001. Other important works include: "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space", 1913, Bronze "The City Rises", 1910, Painting

A picture of one of his sculptures ("Unique Forms of Continuity in Space") on the Italian euro.

Boccioni died falling off a horse.

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture

Boccioni wrote a manifesto about futurist sculpture.



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