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La pittura futurista. Manifesto tecnico (Futurist painting. Technical manifesto) details and expands on the contents of a work issued two months earlier, Manifesto dei Pittori futuristi (Manifesto of the Futurist painters). The work was composed mainly by the painter Umberto Boccioni. It is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal of the Futurists was to discard the art of the past and to usher ...