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

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. His artistic training was at the Academy of Fine Art in

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, where he studied under

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.Cagnaccio and Castellan 1991, p. 162. 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,

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s, scenes of popular life, and religious pictures, shows the influence of the

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painters of the New Objectivity.Stremmel and Grosenick 2004, p.38. 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

, where he died on May 29, 1946.

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References

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*Cagnaccio, and Edoardo Castellan. 1991. ''Cagnaccio di San Pietro''. Milano: Electa. (Italian) *Roh, Franz, Juan Manuel Bonet, Miguel Blesa De La Parra, and Martin Chirino. 1997. ''Realismo Mágico: Franz Roh y la pintura europea 1917-1936 : xposiciónIvam Centre Julio Gonzalez, alencia 19 junio - 31 agosto 1997 : Fundación Caja de Madrid, Madrid, 17 septiembre - 9 noviembre 1997 : Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno,

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2 diciembre 1997 - 1 febrero 1998''. Valencia: Ivam, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. (Spanish and English) *Stremmel, Kerstin, and Uta Grosenick. 2004. ''Realism''. Koln: Taschen. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cagnaccio di San Pietro 1897 births 1946 deaths People from Desenzano del Garda 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists