Antonio Cardile

• Name — Antonio Cardile • Born — 1914 • Birthplace — Taranto, Italy • Died — 1986 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Field — Painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking • Training — Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze • Movement — Scuola romana

Cardile was born in Taranto, but in 1925 moved with his family to Florence. Graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze with Felice Carena and the engraver Celestino Celestini, he initially exhibited at the Mostre Sindacali. During World War II, after a painful war imprisonment, he returned to Rome where he immediately joined the Roman School of Painting. In the last years of his life, he introduced his nephew Joseph Pace to the figurative arts. Giovanni Omiccioli describes the artist in this way: "...another flower that enriches the parlor of our scents, such as Boccioni and Lorenzo Viani, as Ligabue and Carlo Barbieri. Cardile is one of those matadors that annoy all those who wrong the stroke: all things that make angry who loves the quiet of the academies." Corrado Cagli said of him: From 1936 Cardile was present with significant one-man shows to the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and in other prestigious Roman galleries, such as "La Tartaruga". He also took part in group expositions with Pirandello, Guttuso, De Chirico, Luigi Capogrossi, Domenico Purificato, Giulio Turcato and Salvatore Greco. He continued to work in Rome until his death in 1986.