CORONA, Leonardo
Italian painter. He was first taught by his father, Michele Corona, an illuminator, and later entered the workshop of Master Rocco, a copyist of antique works, but the main influences on his development were the works of Titian, Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto. Between 1577 and 1585 Corona painted three grisailles for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge’s Palace, Venice. These were rather clumsily modelled on the work of Veronese, but they nevertheless secured Corona the commission to decorate the walls of the same room with the story of the Doge Enrico Dandolo (destroyed).
For the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo he painted an Annunciation; while for Santo Stefano, an Assumption. He is said to completed some of Titian’s canvases after the master’s death.
