Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cagnaccio di San Pietro

Italian painter (1897-1946)

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1897

Place of Birth: Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 29-May-1946

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cagnaccio di San Pietro (January 14, 1897 – May 29, 1946), born Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, was an Italian magic realist painter. He was born in Desenzano del Garda.
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.
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.



Alternative names	Natale Scarpa, Cagnaccio, Natale Cagnaccio di San Pietro Scarpa Bentivoglio, Natalino Bentivoglio Scarpa, Scarpa Natalino Bentivoglio, Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa
Description	Italian painter magic realism era QS:P2348,Q147516
Date of birth/death	14 January 1897	29 May 1946
Location of birth/death	Desenzano del Garda	Venice
Work location	Venice (1910–1946)
Authority control	: Q1025737 VIAF: 3272114 ISNI: 0000 0000 7100 7788 ULAN: 500049352 LCCN: nr91002788 Open Library: OL439230A WorldCat