Education
He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino.
He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino.
He then trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna.
He was described by Carlo Ridolfi as having a ‘’very strange brain’’ with his paintings equally strange.