title: Sergio Benedetti
text: # Sergio Benedetti
  
  Sergio Adriano Benedetti (28 October 1942 – 24 January 2018) was an Italian art historian and formerly Head Curator and Keeper of the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.
  
  He was best known for his rediscovery of the Baroque masterpiece, The Taking of Christ by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1990. In 1994 he was awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his services to art and culture.
  
  