Benefiali Marco

Benefiali Marco a Roman painter, was born in 1684. He received the honor of knighthood from the pope, and died in 1764. In the Academy of St. Luke is a fine picture of Christ at the Well of Samaria; in the Church of Stigmata, The Flagellation; in the Palazza Spada there is a saloon painted entirely by this artist, which is thought one of the finest works of his time.