Arduino Cantafora (born November 8, 1945, in Milan) is an Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer.
Cantafora graduated from the Politecnico di Milano.
He became renowned for his paintings with Renaissance influence, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico.
[1] In the 1990s, he designed scenery for operas: Perseus and Andromeda at La Scala (1991) and Mozart's Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence (1993).
[2] He has taught at Yale University,[1] IUAV, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio,[1] and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).