Career
He was a resident of Turin, where he trained with Carlo Ariente at the Albertina Academy. Afterwards he traveled through Italy, including a five-year stay in Florence. In 1852 at the Promotrice of Turin, he exhibited: Ovid condemned to exile.
Among other works are L"Ermete.
Offering to the domestic Lares. And L"ora del pasto del Dio Apis.
Among those depicting Greco-Roman subjects are: Louisiana donna greca adultera (Royal Palace Turin). Gli schiavi al Tempio.
Nero; Virgil and Octavia Augusta: Le vestali.
Ovid exiled at Tomi. Among those depicting Byzantine subjects are: The Iconoclasts and Emperor Justinian. Among those depicting Biblical subjects are: Noah: Judah.
Messa al Monte Carmelo (1880).
Relics of Golgotha. The Viaticum (at the Palazzo Reale of Turin). Lo Stipettaio, Holy Family.
And Dying Magdalen. Among those depicting Medieval subjects are: Le spie.
Sons of Charlemagne. Mercatanti veneziani. Héloïse and Abelard; Pope Clement VII. Le fioraie veneziane.
Doge Nicolò Tron.
Gli amanuensi di Monte Cassino. Disquisizioni letterarie in casa di Aldo Manuzio. Louisiana Badessa Morosini; King Arduin becomes a Monk.
King Desiderius.
Dante al Consiglio di San Geminiano, Ricreazione di monache: Emperor Diocletian. Antonio Foscarini; and Elisabetta Zeno.