Mercury Passing Before the Sun
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Mercury Passing Before the Sun
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Mercury Passing Before the Sun is the title of a series of paintings by Italian Futurist painter Giacomo Balla, depicting the November 17, 1914, transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun. Balla, an amateur astronomer, observed the transit through a telescope likely outfitted with a smoked glass filter. His composition, according to daughter Elica Balla, depicts two intersecting views of the event, through the telescope and with the naked eye. Green and white triangles in the painting represe
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Series of paintings by Giacomo Balla
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2023-12-30T07:54:53Z
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