Belisario, by birth a Greek, was the pupil of Tintoretto at Venice. Having adopted his master's style in painting, he obtained thereby great reputation at Naples, where he settled about 1590; but his name is execrated on account of the assassinations to which he was believed to have been a party. He was associated with the Spaniard Ribera and the Neapolitan Carraccioli in most of the great works of art in Naples about that period; and by them the murder of Domenichino by poison was perpetrated. Annibale Carracci, Guido, and several other eminent painters were driven from Naples by their threats and machinations; while a promising young artist, Luigi Rodrigo, was destroyed by poison administered by the hand of his envious master Corenzio. This detestable man was an able colourist in oil, and has left several grand works in fresco in the churches and palaces of Naples. His picture of Christ feeding the multitude was finished in forty days. Corenzio was killed in 1643, when an old man, by a fall from a scaffold while repairing one of his own pictures.