1. Giacomo Balla was born in Turin in 1871; he died in Rome in 1958. He was among the top painters in the Italian movement of Pointillism, but later bhe ecame a prominent member of Futurism. 2. The painting represents the end result of many preparatory studies by Giacomo Balla. He was inspired by a partial solar eclipse due to the passage of the planet Mercury across the sun, which took place on November 7, 1914. 3. This painting "Numbers in love," 1925, illustrates the futurist idea. It testifies to the contact of the artist with the Russian constructivist movement, which occurred on the occasion of his participation with Depero and Prampolini to the Exposition des arts dcoratifs of Paris. In an entirely new and original way Balla portrays the numbers, which are part of the famous Fibonacci series, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377..., where each number represents the sum of the two which precede it, at the same time also representing the symmetries of nature.