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Simone Cantarini, artist
Italian, 1612 - 1648
The Rape of Europa, circa 1640
Etching
22.6 x 31.2 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1988.1.221

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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~

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