Bible Encyclopedias
Vignerio, Jacopo

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Sicilian painter who flourished at Messina about the middle of the 16th century. He studied under Polidoro da Caravaggio, and followed his style. An excellent picture by him of Christ Bearing his Cross, dated 1552, still exists in the Church of Santa Maria della Scala. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.