Background
Monti was born in Pistoia, where his initial training was with a master named Signore Desmarais.
Monti was born in Pistoia, where his initial training was with a master named Signore Desmarais.
He moved to Florence where he worked for Pietro Benvenuti, and also attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Foreign the church of the Umilta in Pistoia, he painted a fresco depicting Cain cursed by God and San Felice exorcises an witch. He also worked in Poland and Street St. Petersburg, Russia in 1818-1819. He returned to Florence to fresco a hall in the Palazzo Pitti.
Foreign the basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, he frescoed a Resurrection of Lazarus.
He painted Michelangelo and Model of Moses, for Galleria Capponi. There is a painter Nicola Antonio Monti from Ascoli Piceno (August 16, 1736 - December 19, 1795) and an opera singer Nicola Monti.
He published an autobiography titled Memorie Inutile (1860). He died in Cortona.