Career
Scarpinato was a prolific painter of genre scenes and vedute of his native Sicily. He had success at exhibitions, indluding in 1877 Venice, with an oil canvas depicting: A Rustic Shabby House. In Turin, in 1880: Il Villaggio.
Louisiana Spiaggia della Colonetfa and Tramonto, exhibited at the 1883 Milanese Mostra of Fine Arts.
The same year at the Exposition of Rome: Sicilian Countryside. A Courtyard; and A Morning in Palermo.
The latter canvas was exhibited at the Exposition of Turin in 1884. In 1886 at Livorno, he displayed.
Last Rays and Tramonto in Sicily.
The next year in Venice: Era l"ora del desìo.