Ancona, 1910 - Roma, 1976
His formative years were spent in Rome, where he attended the accademy of arts and also where he held his first exhibition in 1932. Cagli's pictorial adventure started in those years, when he manifested the desire to detack himself from the experience of the Roman school and experiment new painting techniques and different expressive languages. It is in this way that the artist rediscovers ancient techniques, such as mosaics and encausto and picks up themes that recall third century wall painting. He went to live abroad, Paris and New York in the years from 1937 to 1940, because of the facist racist persecution. After the war he returned to Rome, where he took up painting again, devoting himself to sculpting and stage-design.
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