13 Facts About Benedetta Cappa

Benedetta Cappa was an Italian futurist artist who has had retrospectives at the Walker Art Center and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.

Benedetta Cappa's mother, Amalia Cappa, was a numerologist and believed in the properties of alphabetic letters and gave her four sons names that begin with the letter A and her only daughter, Benedetta, a name that began with B Benedetta Cappa's mother was a cultured woman and a Protestant.

Benedetta Cappa's parents were rigid, but affectionate in her upbringing.

Benedetta Cappa's father, Innocenzo Benedetta Cappa, was an official of the Ministry of Railways and later an officer in the Italian army.

Benedetta Cappa had access to an education that allowed her to nurture her strong vocation to painting and literature.

Benedetta Cappa attended Vittoria Columna high school in Rome and graduated in 1914.

Benedetta Cappa received a degree in elementary education from the "Universita degli Studi di Roma" in 1917.

Benedetta Cappa began her training as a painter in the studio of Giacomo Balla, an abstract artist who created pieces that captured movement and light.

Benedetta Cappa initially modeled her choices of theme and style after her mentor, depicting dynamic objects and the impact they have on their surroundings.

Benedetta Cappa began to meet avant-garde artists, poets and writers who gathered in the studio.

Benedetta Cappa wrote poetry and prose, signed, and spoke as an individual, but only recently has she garnered independent recognition.

Benedetta Cappa's works were exhibited widely, along with the rest of the Italian Futurists, both during her lifetime and after, with major exhibitions as early as 1926 and up until the outbreak of World War II.

Benedetta Cappa was a regular participant in the Venice Biennale, and was the first woman to have a painting reproduced in a Biennale catalog.