born Oct. 19, 1882, Reggio di Calabria, Italy
died Aug. 16, 1916, Verona
Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist.
He was trained in the studio of Giacomo Balla (18711958) in Rome. The most energetic member of the Futurist group (See also Futurism ), Boccioni helped publish Technical Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910), promoting the representation of modern technology, power, time, motion, and speed. These ideas are best shown in his masterpiece of early modern sculpture, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913). His painting The City Rises (1910) is a dynamic composition of swirling human figures in a fragmented crowd scene.