Simone Cantarini
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Simone Cantarini (April 12, 1612 - 1648 in Verona), (also known as Simone da Pesaro), was an Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting.
Cantarini was born in Oropezza near Pesaro, then part of the Papal States.
Initially he was a disciple of the Venetian Claudio Ridolfi, and then, for about 4 years (1635-39), of Guido Reni. He soon fought with his mentor, and did not return to Bologna till 1642, after Reni had died. It is said that his death, which took place at Verona in 1648, was occasioned by chagrin at his failure in a portrait of the duke of Mantua. Others relate that he was poisoned by a Mantuan painter whom he had injured.
His pictures are generally derivative. Some of his works have been mistaken for examples of Guido Reni. Among his principal paintings are St. Anthony, at Cagli; the Magdalene, at Pesaro; the Transfiguration in the Brera Gallery, Milan; the Portrait of Guido, in the Bologna gallery; and St. Romuald, in the Casa Paolucci. His most celebrated etching is Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, honoring the arms of Cardinal Borghese.
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