[3] Also named as her teachers are Emilio Taruffi, Lorenzo Pasinelli, and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.

[4] According to art historian Laura M. Ragg, among the women painters in Bologna at the time, Cantofoli "had much more talent than any of her companions.

[6][7] Art historian Massimo Pulini attributes 30 works to Cantofoli.

"[2] A painting of a woman in a turban in the collection of the Palazzo Barberini, traditionally identified as a portrait of Beatrice Cenci, long attributed to Guido Reni, has been attributed to Ginevra Cantofoli.

A record price for a work by Cantofoli was set by A Sea-Nymph, probably Galatea, auctioned for $137,500 at Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 2020.