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Simone Cantarini, after
Italian, 1612 - 1648
St. John the Baptist in the Desert, after Simone Cantarini, 17th century
Etching
17.2 x 17 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36519

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Artist Biography: Born in Oropezza near Pesaro (he is also called "Il Pesarese") in 1612, worked under Claudio Ridolfi and then in Bologna. Follower of Guido Reni until 1637, went to Rome ca. 1639, Mantua ca. 1642, and Verona where he died on 15 October 1648. See: Sopher, Marcus. Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1978.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. Vol. XIX. W¸rzburg: 1920~Spike, John. Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch. vol 42. New York: 1981, Abaris Books~