Antonio Cardile (1914–1986) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School of Painting).
Graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze with Felice Carena and the engraver Celestino Celestini, he initially exhibited at the Mostre Sindacali.
[1][2] Giovanni Omiccioli describes the artist in this way:[3] "...another flower that enriches the parlor of our scents, such as Boccioni and Lorenzo Viani, as Ligabue and Carlo Barbieri.
"Corrado Cagli said of him:[4] "...Cardile may have suffered, thought and expressed, in no way a worldly thoughts, still less in frivolous speculation, if anything, for having extended the romantic vein that has run the graphics of Scipione, the "apocalypse" of Mario Mafai, by the gardens of Omiccioli to the prostitutes of Vespignani, could not be deeply understood, if not by the most experienced Roman public.
The stamp pathetic and the documentary value of his work bind Cardile to that line of those illustrious Roman painters"..."From 1936 Cardile is present with significant one-man shows to the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and in the most prestigious Roman galleries, such as "La Tartaruga", and took part in meaningful group expositions with Pirandello, Guttuso, De Chirico, Luigi Capogrossi, Domenico Purificato, Giulio Turcato, Salvatore Greco.