Simone Cantarini

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Simone Cantarini (also known as Simone da Pesaro; April 12, 1612 - 1648) 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 pupil of the Venetian Claudio Ridolfi and Pesarese Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi, and then, for about 4 years (1635-1639), of Guido Reni. He soon fought with his mentor, and did not return to Bologna till after Reni had died (1642). His pictures are generally derivative. Some of his works have been mistaken for examples of 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 heraldic arms of Cardinal Borghese.

It is said that Cantarini's death, which took place at Verona in 1648, was occasioned by chagrin at his failure in a portrait of the duke of Mantua^{[citation needed]}. Others relate that he was poisoned by a Mantuan painter whom he had injured^{[citation needed]}.

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• Biography and artwork
• Etchings in DeYoung Museum of San Francisco

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750", Pelican History of Art, 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, p342-343.