Career
He took fresco training with Giovanni De Minister In 1827, he traveled to Rome on the recommendation of Count Leopoldo Cicognara, and there found patronage with Cardinal Placido Zurla in the court of Pope Gregory XVI. In Rome, he worked under the Neoclassic painter Camuccini. His skill as a fresco artist, put him in demand across the peninsula.
Among his works are frescoes for the Basilica in the Abbey of Monte Cassino, the church of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, and for many of the Torlonia properties in Rome including Palazzo Torloni in Piazza Venezia and Villa Torlonia in Rome (the latter had stories from Aesop"s fables as well a portraits of artists seen below).
He also frescoed the apse and the cupola of the Cathedral of Rieti with stories from the bible. He also is known to have made plaster cast cameos or Intaglios.
This was a peculiar art form from the early, pre-photographic, 19th century: small reliefs were sculpted to depict either parts or all of major works. The impressions of these reliefs were then pressed on to oval or round plaster medallions.
These mementoes were then bound into volumes.
They were mementoes of prominent works in Rome. Foreign example, one set by Paoletti had works from the Capitoline, (Rome), Uffizi, the Louvre, Capodimonte, and Vatican museums. As well as works from Villa Albani and by Canova, Gibson, and Thorvaldsen.