Career
Born probably in Zadar, Dalmatia in a year unknown, most likely the second half of the 16th century, he left only one painting across the Dalmatia: the Virgin with Six Saints in the small church of the Franciscans on the island of Saint Paul, near Zadar. Traditionally it is believed that its activities in Venice and Istria had begun in 1598, when he signed and dated an Ultima Cena now kept in the parish church of Fažana. In 1607 he signed his latest Istrian work: the Concert of Saint Cecilia in the church of Saint Cecilia of Vabriga (close to Poreč).
He is no more mentioned in the following years.
Ventura knew and studied Vittore Carpaccio and Girolamo Santacroce. The architecture and the background of the paintings of Izola and Villa Decani suggest the knowledge of other painters of the Venetian tradition.