Sergio Benedetti

Commendatore Sergio Benedetti (born 1942) is an Italian art historian and formerly Head Curator and Keeper of the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.[1]

He is best known for his rediscovery of the Baroque masterpiece, The Taking of Christ by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in the early 1990s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://nationalgallery.ie/en/aboutus/pressroom/2008%20Press%20Releases/New_Head_Curator.aspx
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/25/arts/an-unsung-caravaggio-finds-glory-in-dublin.html


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