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Simone Cantarini (12 April 1612 – 15 October 1648) 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 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).
