Federico Bencovich (Croatian: Federiko Benković; 1677 – 8 July 1753), also known as Federighetto or Ferighetto Dalmatino among others,[1][2] was a Croatian-Italian late Baroque painter from Venetian Dalmatia.

Although was among prominent painters of his era in North Italy, Germany and Austria, being a link between Venetian and Austrian Baroque, Bencovich's art was mostly rediscovered and valued only since the early 20th century.

[1][2] Bencovich's initial training was likely in Venice, but later he apprenticed with Carlo Cignani in Bologna, assisting him in 1706 in completing the frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin on the dome of the Forlì cathedral.

[1][4] There completed Immaculate Conception, Archangel Michael, and Sacrificio di Jefte and Mosè ed Aronne, with the former disappearing, and latter destroyed during the World War II.

[1] However, in his late career after moving from Milan to Vienna, seemingly experienced a crisis and lack of work, spending his last years in Gorizia at the residence of Attems family.

He uses Piazzetta's and Sebastiano Ricci's unfinished and ragged brushstrokes, but superimposes a startling mystical imprint that is often foreign to the magisterial and olympian Venetian painting, and more akin to the Baroque painters from Northern Italy, Alessandro Magnasco and Francesco Cairo.

[7] For example, art historian and collector Marcello Oretti (1786) from Bologna, repeated very critical reception by Venetian Pietro Guarienti (1752) which noted his "new and extravagant way of painting, which dragged him from the good path, which led him to perfection, and gave in a way, which did not please others except him, and made him lose credit, and acquired reputation".

[10] However, some paintings which were credited to Bencovich, in the late 20th and early 21st century were sometimes re-assigned to Piazzetta (Venere e Marte, Pordenone), Tiepolo (Sacra Famiglia e tre santi francescani, Milan; San Francesco in meditazione, Venezia; Fauno seduto con clava, Milan), Giovanni Battista Crosato (Il miracolo dell'ostia, Pordenone), Josef Ignaz Mildorfer (Socrate incitato ad evadere dal carcere, Sibiu), and Pittoni (San Giuseppe con Gesù Bambino, Udine).