Painting by Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, wife of Filippo Tomaso Marinetti and future companion
Benedetta Kappa Marinette ©Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Rome/ Alamy
The term “futurism” was born in a car accident. At least that is the story that poet Filippotoma So Malinetti told in 1909 when he coined the term in an editorial in a French newspaper. Le Figaro. He and some friends drank wild nights and discussed the art when they decided to jump on Marinetti’s 1908 Fiat to speed up the Italian path. Surprised by the two cyclists, Marinetti lost control of…
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