Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BENEFIAL (BENEFIAL), MARCO. - Painter, born in 1684 in Rome, died there in 1764. He is considered a precursor of Neoclassicism due to his passion for antiquity and Raphael, which he developed during his early years of study under Bonaventura Lambert, in stark contrast to Baroque Mannerism.
BENEFIAL, MARCO - Self-portrait - Rome, Accademia di S. Luca.
of his time. Although not lacking in genius and a sense of color, he adapted himself to collaborate with the Germisoni first, in 1711, and then with Evangelista, to whom he ceded the authorship of his paintings. In 1755 he became a member of the Accademia di S. Luca. In the cathedrals of Macerata and Jesi there are two paintings from 1705, and in that of Viterbo ten large paintings from 1727. Other works are in Rome (Villa Panfili, S. Giovanni in Laterano), Siena, Florence, Città di Castello, Arsoli, Pisa.
BIBL.: Archivio dell'Acc. di S. Luca, Le pompe dell'Acc. del disegno..., celebrated in the Campidoglio on 25 February 1702, Rome 1702; F. Noack, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, III, pp. 321-32; H. Woss, Die Malerei des Barock in Rom, Berlin 1925.
“BENEFIAL (BENEFIAL), MARCO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 760. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/benefial-benefial-marco.
