Cantore Galleria Antiquaria, directed by Pietro Cantore, was founded by his mother Luisa in the late 1970s and operates on Via Farini in central Modena, specializing in Old Master paintings from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
The gallery has always participated in Modenantiquaria, and since 2011 in the Florence International Antiques Biennale (BIAF).
Pietro Cantore is President of the Modena Antiquarians Association, National Vice President of the Italian Federation of Art Dealers (FIMA), and Treasurer of the Italian Antiquarian Association. Alongside his work as a dealer, he actively supports the city’s leading museum, the Galleria Estense. In 2014, he founded the Friends of the Estensi Galleries Association, where he serves as Vice President.
LUCA FERRARI, CALLED LUCA DA REGGIO
(Reggio Emilia, 1605 – Padua, 1654)
The Magdalene Adoring the Crucifix
Oil on canvas, 112 x 93 cm
Provenance
Principi Pignatelli
Bibliography
M. Pirondini, The Art of the Este Family. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Painting in Modena and Reggio. Exhibition Catalog, Modena 1986, p. 223, no. 14; A. Coccioli Mastroviti, Luca Ferrari, in Painting in Italy. The Seventeenth Century, Milan 1989, p. 736;
P. Ceschi Lavagetto, Luca da Reggio between Emilia and Veneto, in Venetian Painting in the Este States, Modena 1996, p. 232, note 18; M. Pirondini, Luca Ferrari, Reggio Emilia 1999, p. 151, no. 55, ill. plate XXXIX; M. L. Mezzacasa in The Magdalene and the Cross. Sublime Love. Exhibition catalog, Treviso 2025, pp. 227-228.
SCIPIONE PULZONE CALLED GAETANO
(Gaeta, 1544 – Rome, 1598)
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 97 cm
Provenance: Conti Negroni family, Genoa, first half of the 19th century; Baroni collection, Florence; Galleria Sestieri, Rome; Gilberto Zabert, Turin 1989
Bibliography: X. Salomon in A. Zuccari, A. Acconci, Scipione Pulzone. From Gaeta to Rome to the European Courts, Rome 2013, pp. 378-379.
Exhibitions: Diocesan Museum and Museum of Religious Art in the Aurunci Mountains Park, Scipione Pulzone. From Gaeta to Rome to the Courts of Europe, June 27 – October 27, 2013, Gaeta, Lazio.
HENDRICK DE SOMER
(Lokeren/Ghent, 1607/08 – Naples 1656?)
Saint John the Baptist
Oil on canvas, 184.5 x 151 cm
Bibliography: N. Spinosa, in Return to the Baroque. From Caravaggio to Luigi Vanvitelli, exhibition catalog, Naples 2009, p. 117.
N. Spinosa, Seventeenth-Century Painting in Naples. From Caravaggio to Massimo Stanzione, Naples 2010, p. 28.
M. Fratarcangeli, in Genesis and the Evolution of the Baroque between Rome and Naples. Paintings from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia and the Koelliker Collection, exhibition catalog, edited by F. Petrucci, Rome 2025, pp. 74-75.
