Cantarini

Cantarini, SIMONE, also known as IL PESARESE, an Italian painter, born at Pesaro in 1612, studied under Guido Reni at Bologna, where he afterwards painted a large number of pictures, all much in the style, but without the grace and delicacy, of his master's works. His thirty-seven etchings more closely resemble those of Guido. Throughout his life Cantarini's intolerable arrogance made him numerous enemies; and after a quarrel with his chief patron, the Duke of Mantua, he died at Verona in 1648, not free from a suspicion of having poisoned himself.