Lorenzo Gennari (also known as Ariminese; 15951665–72) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. Gennari was born in Cento in 1595 to the painter Benedetto. From 1615–17, Gennari was apprenticed to Guercino and

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

ed the Pannini family home in Cento; afterwards, he followed the senior painter to Bologna. ''

Cassandra and Coroebus (The Capture of Cassandra and Death of Coroebus) Cassandra or Kassandra (; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, , also , and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believ ...

''—previously ''The Inspiration of Cassandra''—was painted between 1615–30; it was originally attributed to Guercino, but "is too clumsy to even be a copy of a lost painting of his. It is certainly an autonomous work by Gennari, but based on drawings by Guercino." Gennari died between 1665 and 1672 in Rimini.

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1595 births 17th-century deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters people from Cento {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub