Fabio Benzi is full professor of Contemporary Art History at “Gabriele d’anninzio” University in Chieti-Pescara, where he also chairs the degree course in Cultural Heritage. Among his various assignments, he was a member of the scientific commission of the de Chirico Foundation (1992 -1993), he was director of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Anticoli Corrado (1992-2001), he was awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1998/99 and 1999/2000, and he was artistic director of the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome from 2000 to 2005. He has curated numerous exhibitions for major museums in Italy and abroad.His studies range from Renaissance to contemporary art. His most important contributions on the Renaissance and Baroque include the volume on architecture in Rome at the time of Sixtus IV, works on the wooden studiolo in Urbino and the Codex Escurialensis, on the architecture of Roman palaces from the Renaissance to the Baroque, on Gaspare Vanvitelli and on 18th-century landscape architecture (Keisermann). In the contemporary field, he has written on many topics from Neoclassicism to the end of the 20th century and, in particular, important monographs on Futurism, Italian art between the two Wars, Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and numerous essays on Symbolism, the relationship between Fascism and the figurative arts, and Italian and European art of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. He has also produced monographs on Balla, Sironi, de Chirico, Martini, Severini, Funi, Cagli, Chini, Carena, Cavalli, Pirandello and Michetti.