
Umberto BoccioniItalian, 1882–1916May one see it?
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
1907
Moves to Milan
In 1907 Boccioni settled in Milan, in the artists’ quarter of Corvetto, where he got to know the representatives of Futurism.
1907 · Workplace
Padua
April 1907 – August 1907 · Workplace
Venice
early 1910
Meets Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In early 1910 Boccioni met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who had published his Manifesto of Futurism the year before.
11 February 1910
Signs the “Manifesto of Futurist Painters”
On 11 February 1910 Boccioni signed the Manifesto of Futurist Painters together with Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini.
May 1911
“The City Rises” on show in Milan
In May 1911 “The City Rises” went on show in Milan: a huge canvas, 2 by 3 metres, on which Boccioni had worked for nearly a year, attempting, as he wrote to a friend, “a great synthesis of labor, light and movement”. It attracted numerous reviews, mostly admiring.