Cagnaccio di San Pietro
Illustration — Autoritratto (1938), Ca' Pesaro • Illustration — I Naufraghi, 1934, oil on canvas Cagnaccio di San Pietro (January 14, 1897 – May 29, 1946), born Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, was an Italian magic realist painter. His artistic training was at the Academy of Fine Art in Venice, where he studied under Ettore Tito. Cagnaccio's early paintings were in a Futurist idiom, but by the early 1920s he had adopted a very smoothly brushed, nearly photographic style.
Also recorded as Natale Scarpa · Cagnaccio · Natale Cagnaccio di San Pietro Scarpa Bentivoglio · Natalino Bentivoglio Scarpa
Cagnaccio di San Pietro
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- Full name
- Natalino Bentivoglio Scarpa.
- Born
- 1897. · Desenzano del Garda.
- Died
- 1946. · Venice.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Education
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
- Teachers
- Ettore Tito.
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Illustration — Autoritratto (1938), Ca' Pesaro • Illustration — I Naufraghi, 1934, oil on canvas Cagnaccio di San Pietro (January 14, 1897 – May 29, 1946), born Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, was an Italian magic realist painter. His artistic training was at the Academy of Fine Art in Venice, where he studied under Ettore Tito. Cagnaccio's early paintings were in a Futurist idiom, but by the early 1920s he had adopted a very smoothly brushed, nearly photographic style.
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Identity and origins
His work, which includes portraits, nudes, still lifes, scenes of popular life, and religious pictures, shows the influence of the German painters of the New Objectivity. One of his best-known paintings, After the Orgy (1928), shows three nude women (apparently the same model in three different poses) asleep on a floor littered with wine bottles, playing cards and cigarettes, with an effect "more depressing than titillating". The clinical realism of this work is also seen in his still lifes, which often represent crabs, lobsters, or glass objects that he painted with chilly precision. His health disintegrated in the 1940s, and he spent the war years hospitalized in Venice, where he died on May 29, 1946.
Cagnaccio di San Pietro studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Training under Ettore Tito is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Work by Cagnaccio di San Pietro is recorded in the collections of Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma and Galleria d'arte moderna of Genoa.
He also worked under the name Cagnaccio di San Pietro.
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1897
Cagnaccio di San Pietro born at Desenzano del Garda.
1946
Cagnaccio di San Pietro died at Venice.
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Desenzano del Garda.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 119042401, Cagnaccio, di San Pietro.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500049352, Cagnaccio di San Pietro.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1025737: Cagnaccio di San Pietro
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- “Cagnaccio di San Pietro”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Cagnaccio di San Pietro, l’iperrealista che flirtava con la Nuova Oggettività.
- 2.Il soprannome di "Cagnaccio" venne attribuito ai nonni dell'artista per via di un loro cane piuttosto aggressivo e lunatico che per anni disturbò i vicini.
- 3.Deve fingersi squilibrato e accettare talvolta il ricovero al manicomio di San Servolo o all'ospedale del Lido di Venezia.
- 4.Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Il richiamo della Nuova Oggettività.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 119042401, Cagnaccio, di San Pietro.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Getty Union List of Artist Names 500049352, Cagnaccio di San Pietro.The Getty Research Institute
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1025737: Cagnaccio di San PietroWikimedia Foundation
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Cagnaccio di San Pietro is recorded at birth as Natalino Bentivoglio Scarpa. Recorded as painter.
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Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma and Galleria d'arte moderna of Genoa
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