BALDASARRE

ANNA  , a painter who flourished during part of the 16th and 17th centuries . He was born at Venice, probably about 156o, and is said to have been of Flemish descent . The date of his death is uncertain, but he seems to have been alive in 1639 . For a number of years he studied under Leonardo Corona, and on the death of that painter completed several works left unfinished by him . His own activity seems to have been confined to the production of pieces for several of the churches and a few private houses in Venice, and the old guide-books and descriptions of the city notice a considerable number of paintings by him . Scarcely any of these, however, have survived .