Arnaldo Carpanetti (1898-1969) was an avant-garde Italian painter and artist. Carpanetti was born on January 15, 1898 in Ancona, Italy. He received an early liberal arts education in Manaos (now Manaus), Brazil, at the Mario de Lima Academy. de Lima (1886-1936) was a well known South American poet and lawyer. In 1912, at age fourteen, Carpanetti was commissioned to paint rooms at the Casa degli Italiani, an apolitical cultural foundation founded in 1865 and located in Barcelona, Spain. The work led to a scholarship at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Italy. Carpanetti studied under Ambrogio Antonio Alciati (1878-1929) and was one of Alciati’s favorite students. He graduated in 1923.

From the beginning of Carpanetti’s painting career, the artist sought to create episodic narrative compositions based on myths expressing human drama. Carpanetti was interested in the figure which took center stage in many of his works. The artist was part of the second wave of 20th-century Italian artists trying to reclaim their Italian heritage and express it in a modern style.  Together with the Futurist artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961), the two spear-headed the Artistic Avant-garde Movement in Italy.

Carpanetti showed at many of the best exhibitions of the era including the II Quadriennale of Rome, several Venice Biennals (1930 PNF Prize), the Antoniana of Milan (1923), and the Brera Biennale (1926 Ministry Pl gold medal,1928 Prince Umberto Prize.) and in 1932 he won first Prize at St. Anthony of Padua.

Carpanetti died April 5, 1969 in Milan, Italy.

“Arnaldo Carpanetti.”  Wikipedia.com (Italy).  Updated October 31, 2016.  Accessed August 23, 2017.  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Carpanetti  (Google translated, rewritten by Bill Indursky of the Emil Carlsen Archives)