Matteo Loves was a painter active in

Cento Cento (; Bolognese dialect, Northern Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, City Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, Centese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The name Cento is a reference to the centur ...

from about 1625 to 1662. Few biographical details are known. It is said he was born in

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to an English family, and arrived as a young man in Cento, where he trained with

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous n ...

. Works by Loves can be found in the Pinacoteca of Cento and in the church of San Rocco e San Sebastiano.La Pinacoteca civica di Cento: guida illustrate, by Fausto Gozzi, Pinacoteca civica di Cento, (1987), Page 62.

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Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub