What is Benedetta Cappa?
{{Infobox person | name = Benedetta Cappa | image = Marinetti and Benedetta.jpg | caption = Benedetta and Marinetti, March 18, 1937 | alt = | spouse = [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] | occupation = Italian painter | birth_date = 14 August 1897 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|5|15|1897|8|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | death_place = [[Venice]], Italy }} '''Benedetta Cappa''' (14 August 1897 – 15 May 1977) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[Futurism|futurist]] [[artist]]. She had [[exhibition]]s at the [[Walker Art Center]] and the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]].<ref name=future>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/arts/design/guggenheim-is-to-show-rare-murals-by-a-futurist.html|title=Guggenheim Is to Show Rare Murals by a Futurist|last=Donadio|first=Rachel|date=21 January 2014|page=C1|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 April 2014}}</ref> ==Biography== Cappa was born on 14 August 1897 in [[Rome]], Italy. She became very interested in [[Futurism]] while [[wikt:study|study]]ing under one of the [[wikt:movement|movement]]'s leading figures, [[Giacomo Balla]], in Rome in 1917.<ref name=walkerart>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/AC73F5BDEEF8DE5D6173.htm|title=La Futurista: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1917-1944)|publisher=Walker Art Gallery|access-date=20 September 2015|archive-date=12 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512232632/http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/AC73F5BDEEF8DE5D6173.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> She married [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] in 1923 and they had three daughters: Vittoria, Ala and Luce.<ref name=future/> Cappa, now using her married name Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, was the first woman artist to have her work featured in the 1930 [[Biennale]] [[wikt:catalog|catalog]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artslife.com/2009/02/13/benedetta-cappa-marinetti/ |title=Benedetta Cappa Marinetti; La donna che contribuì a far conoscere il Futurismo all’estero |date=13 February 2009 |publisher=ArtsLife