Education
He was a pupil of Tommaso Minardi at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and wrote a biography about his teacher.
He was a pupil of Tommaso Minardi at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and wrote a biography about his teacher.
He also spent some time in the studio of Cesare Marianecci in Florence. Among his religious paintings was a Visitation for the church of Guadalupa (1854), a Conference of Street Vincenzo de" Paoli for the church of Santissima Trinità (1855) near Montecitorio, and frescoes for the church of San Paolo (1860) depicting Street Paul"s Sermon in the Synagogue and Street Paul in Damascus. He also painted a Sermon of Street Francesco di Sales for the cathedral of Porto Maurizio and biblical subjects for the Hospital of Santo Spirito e Fatebenefratelli in Rome.
In 1865 he exhibited a large historical canvas depicting Michelangelo and Francesco Ferrucci now in the Civic Museum of Turin.
He gained the commission of painting genre scenes in the gallery of the Castello di Rivoli. he was awarded a prise at the exposition in Rome of 1874. He also painted a Galileo demonstrates the use of a telescope to Venetian Signoria (circa 1867) and a canvas depicting Donna Olimpia Pamphili, sent to the International Exposition in Berlin in 1891 (now in Galleria Nazionale d"Arte Moderna in Rome).
In 1901, he published a book of essays titled Memorie: studi dal vero. Among the topics were Gioacchino Rossini.
Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi.
Alessandro Manzoni. Michelangelo. The Exposition of Milan in 1872. Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885.
Cesare Maccari.
Francesco Podesti. And Agli alunni delle scuole d"arte applicata all" industria e alcune poesie.
He became an honorary member of the Academia di San Luca, and received from the government posts to judge or represent the country at many art exhibitions at home and abroad.