Cesare Corte (1554–1613) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa.
It is said that Queen Elizabeth of England requested a portrait from him,[1] although he is not mentioned in Lord Orfurd's Anecdotes.
For the church of San Pietro he painted the titular Saint at the feet of the Virgin; for San Francesco, the altar-piece of the chapel of Prince Massa, representing Mary Magdalene; and for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine two pictures of St. Simeon and St. Francis.
On December 30, 1612, he was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition for espousing Lutheran beliefs and possessing Protestant literature.
He confessed and underwent a public abjuration of his heretical beliefs on August 11, 1613, in the church of San Domenico.