Carmine Benincasa (17 December 1947 – 3 August 2020) was an Italian art critic and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

professor.

Biography

Benincasa was born in

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in the south of Italy. After studying in a religious school he moved to

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to study

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and

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. He was a professor of art history at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata The Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata is an academy of fine arts located in Macerata, Italy. It was founded in 1972. Initially, the Accademia was located in the Palazzo Buonaccorsi. After the Umbria and Marche earthquake of 1997, it was moved ...

, the Academy of Fine Arts in

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and Professor of History of Art at the

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of the

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in Rome. During this period he met intellectuals like

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...

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Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Fem ...

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and many more. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the

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Visual Arts Committee and an advisor to the Ministry of Culture and Environment. In 1994 he was briefly accused and incarcerated for defrauding collectors by validating and selling false artworks. The case was subsequently thrown out of court for lack of evidence. Benincasa was eventually cleared of every wrongdoing by the Supreme Court of Italy in 2014. Benincasa published numerous essays, articles and monographs on artists such as

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...

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Renato Guttuso Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...

Mario Ceroli Mario Ceroli (born 1938) is an Italian sculptor. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. One of his sculptures is on the Luigi Einaudi campus of the Univ ...

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i ...

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (, ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and ...

Giacomo Balla Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, ...

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

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and

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. He also organized many international exhibitions, including a section of the

in 1982. He died on 3 August 2020, aged 72. Warhol Benincasa

Selected works

* ''Chiesa e storia del cardinale

Emmanuel Célestin Suhard Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (; April 5, 1874 – May 30, 1949) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He was instrumental in the foun ...

e il Concilio Vaticano II'' – Ed. Paoline, 1967 * ''L’interpretazione tra futuro e utopia'' – Ed. Magma, Roma 1973 * ''Sul manierismo – Come dentro uno specchio'', La Nuova Foglio Editrice 1975; 2° ed – Ed. Officina, Roma * ''Babilonia in fiamme – Saggi sull’arte contemporanea'' – Ed. Electa, Milano 1978 * ''Architettura come dis-identità'' – Ed. Dedalo, Bari 1978 * ''L’altra scena – Saggi sul pensiero antico, medioevale e controrinascimentale'' – Ed. Dedalo, 1979 * ''Anabasi – Architettura e arte 1960/1980'' – Ed. Dedalo, Bari 1980 * ''

'' – Ed. 2C, Roma 1981 * ''

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense Expressionism, expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the ...

- La mia vita'' – Ed. Marsilio, Venezia 1981 * ''

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculpture, sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his all ...

– Opere dal 1900 al 1963'' – Ed. Marsilio, Venezia 1982 * ''Verso l’altrove – Fogli eretici sull’arte contemporanea'' – Ed. Electa, Milano 1983 * ''

Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...

'' – Ed. Leader, 1983 * ''

'' – Ed. Marisa del Re Gallery, 1983Paul_Klee
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Umberto Mastroianni Umberto Mastroianni (September 21, 1910 in Fontana Liri – February 25, 1998 in Marino, Italy), was an Italian abstract sculptor. In 1989, he received the first Praemium Imperiale for sculpture. During World War II, he was in the Italian res ...

– Monumenti 1945/1946'' – Ed. Electa, Milano 1986 * ''Il colore e la luce – L’arte contemporanea'' – Ed. Spirali, Milano 1985 * ''

André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussel ...

– L’universo della pittura'' – Ed. Mondatori, Milano 1989 * ''Clara Halter - Trace'' - Ed. Robert Laffont; First Edition, 1992 * ''Il tutto in frammenti: Arte del XX secolo. Una nuova interpretazione storica'', Politi Editore, Milan, 1994

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