Cesare Turco

Cesare Turco (c. 1510-c. 1560) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Ischitella near Foggia. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio d'Amato but afterwards studied under Andrea Sabbatini. He painted for the churches and public buildings of Naples. He painted the Baptism of Christ by St. John in Santa Maria delle Grazie and a Circumcision for the Jesuits' church. Turco died in Naples.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 591.