Bonzagni, Arnoldo

(9/24/1887 Cento-12/30/1918 Milan) (Italy)

   Painter. Attended the Accademia di Brera in Milan and became involved with Futurism in its infancy. His erotic art tended toward scenes of flagellation, forced sex, and S&M, many with religious themes.

   Reproductions: [Arab man kisses and fingers woman while she masturbates another man]; c1910; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 188 . [Fellatio scene]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 112 [C]. [Flagellation scene with nuns and monks]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 114 [C]. [Man enters woman from behind]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: pp. 109, 113 [C]. [Men dressed like Arabs and a nude woman engaged in foreplay]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 106 [C]. [Nun flagellated in front of a Cardinal]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 115 [C]. [Orgy scene with putti using dildoes on women]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 111 [C]. [Outdoor flagellation scene]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 110 [C]. [Threesome scene]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 108 [C]; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 189 [C]. [Woman clamped to a wall while a man uses pincers to torture her genitals]; c1910; Dopp, 2004: p. 94 [C]. [Woman fellates man who is performing cunnilingus on another woman]; 1910; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 107 [C].

   Source: Benezit, vol. 2: pp. 847-848.