Cardisco, Marco

Cardisco, Marco (called il Calabrese), a reputable painter of Calabria, flourished from 1508 to 1542, and probably studied under P. da Caravaggio. There is a picture by him, in the church of San Agostino at Naples, representing that saint disputing with heretics. He also painted several other pictures, among which is a Dead Christ, with two laterals of St. Peter and St. Paul, in the chapel of the church of San Pietro ad Aram, at Naples. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Dict. s.v.