SIMONE

See also:

• SIMONE CANTARINI (1612-1648)

CANTARINI (1612-1648)  , called SIMONE DA PESARO, painter and etcher, was born at Oropezza near Pesaro in 1612 . He was a disciple of Guido Reni and a fellow-student of Domeni chino and Albano . The irritability of his temper and his vanity were extreme; and it is said that his death, which took place at Verona in x648, 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, though masterly and spirited, are deficient in originality . Some of his works have been mistaken for examples of Guido Reni, to whom, indeed, he is by some considered superior in the extremities of the figures . 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 .