Strozzi, Bernardo

Strozzi, Bernardo, called Capuccino, an Italian painter, was born at Genoa in 1581, and studied under Pietro Sorri, but at the age of seventeen he entered the Capuchin Order, and finally became a secular priest. He died at Venice in 1644, leaving many sacred pieces, which are enumerated in Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. s.v.