The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Scipione
(Gino Bonichi) (shpyô´n; j´n bn´k) (KEY) , 190433, Italian painter. Together with Mario Mafai, Scipione was a cofounder of the Roman school, an expressionist movement, in 1928. His highly personal symbolism depicts fantasy tinged with violence. Roman Courtesan (1930; Mattioli Coll., Milan) is a characteristic work.