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Gino Bonichi (February 15 1904 – November 9 1933) known as Scipione was an Italian painter and writer. He was born in Macerata. In 1909 he moved to Rome where he later enrolled at the Scuola Libera di Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He founded with Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphael the Scuola romana a group of artists active in Rome who were influenced by Expressionism and opposed the officially approved art of the Fascist period.
