(b Quargnento, Piedmont, 11 Feb. 1881; d Milan, 13 Apr. 1966). Italian painter and writer on art, a prominent figure in both Futurism and Metaphysical Painting. He joined the Futurists in 1909, and visits to Paris in 1911 and 1912 introduced Cubist influence into his work. In his best-known painting, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1911, MoMA, New York), for example, he combined the dynamism typical of Futurism with a sense of Cubist structural severity. In 1915 he met Giorgio de Chirico and turned to Metaphysical Painting, producing about twenty works with de Chirico's paraphernalia of posturing mannequins, half-open doors, mysteriously significant interiors, etc., though generally without his typically sinister feeling. In 1919 Carrà published a book entitled Pittura metafisica, but in the same year he broke with de Chirico and abandoned the style.