Simone Cantarini

Simone da Pesaro
Pesarese, il

Pesarese, 1612 - 1648

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Italian etcher and painter (1612-1648)

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A bearded man holds and looks down at an open book as a winged angel holds a feather pen and an inkwell in this vertical painting. Both are shown from the waist up against a peanut-brown background, and both have pale skin. The man’s body faces us, though his shoulders are angled slightly to our left. He is balding, with a rim of gray, curly hair, and a full, grayish-white beard. His forehead is heavily wrinkled, and there are hollows under his high cheekbones. A marine-blue cloth drapes across his shoulders over a brick-red garment. He braces the book with one hand so the fingers hook over the top edge of the pages. He lifts a section of a few pages with the other hand, and there is black writing on the white pages. The angel stands facing away from us so we look onto the back of the ear and side of the left cheek. The angel’s long blond hair is braided into two plaits and wound around the sides and top of the head, where they are tied with a red bow. The angel wears a bodice with a square neckline, and the puffy white sleeve we see is gathered at the elbow. The wings are snowy white. The tip of the white feather pen rests in the shallow, hockey puck-shaped inkwell held in the left hand.
Simone Cantarini, Saint Matthew and the Angel, c. 1645/1648, oil on canvas, Gift of James Belden in memory of Evelyn Berry Belden, 1972.44.1

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Simone Cantarini · c. 1645/1648 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.44.1

Simone Cantarini, Virgin and Child in Glory, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.9

Virgin and Child in Glory

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.9

Simone Cantarini, Venus and Adonis, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.11

Venus and Adonis

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.11

Simone Cantarini, Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Christ Child, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.12

Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Christ Child

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.12

Simone Cantarini, Adam and Eve, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.14

Adam and Eve

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.14

Simone Cantarini, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.15

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.15

Simone Cantarini, Adam and Eve, 1640s, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.37.1

Adam and Eve

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching ·  Accession ID  1971.37.1

Simone Cantarini, Guardian Angel, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier, 2018.113.10

Guardian Angel

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.113.10

Simone Cantarini, Venus and Adonis, 1640s, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.37.38

Venus and Adonis

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching ·  Accession ID  1971.37.38

Simone Cantarini, Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Christ Child, 1640s, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.37.30

Saint Anthony of Padua Holding the Christ Child

Simone Cantarini · 1640s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1971.37.30

Bibliography

1841

  • Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Felsina Pittrice. Vite de Pittori Bolognesi con aggiunte correzioni e note inedite dell'autore di Giampietro Zanotti e di altri scrittori. 2 vols. Originally published 1688. Bologna, 1841. Reprint. 1974: 1:373-383.

1960

  • Miller, Dwight. "Cantarini, Simone, detto il Pesarese." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Edited by Alberto Maria Ghisalberti. 79+ vols. Rome, 1960+: 18 (1975): 242-244.

1975

  • Mancigotti, Mario. Simone Cantarini il Pesarese. Pesaro, 1975.

1980

  • Colombi Ferretti, Anna. "Simone Cantarini: Dalla Marca barroccesca alla Bassa padana." Bollettino d'Arte 67 (1980): 19-34.

1992

  • Colombi Ferretti, Anna. "Simone Cantarini." In La Scuola di Guido Reni. Emilio Negro and Massimo Piondini, eds. Modena, 1992: 109-154.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 40-41.