Corenzio, Belisario

Corenzio, Belisario a Greek painter, was born in 1558. At the age of twenty-two he went to Venice and entered the school of Tintoretto. One of his best productions is The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, in the refectory of the Benedictines, which he finished in forty days. He painted many admirable works for the churches of Naples. Some of his principal pictures are, The Virgin Crowned by the Trinity; The Visitation; The Presentation in the Temple;

Life of the Virgin. He died in 1643. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.