Career
He collaborated with Filippo Lauri, Andrea Sacchi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He also helped in the renovation of San Martino ai Monti (1647-1654). He contributed illustrated architectural perspectives to Ferrari"s Hesperides (1646).
He produced numerous architectural paintings showing grand structures in strong chiaroscuro, including a set of four in the Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Rome, with figure by the Genoese painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and two in the Musée de Peinture e de Sculpture, Grenoble (inv MG767, 768).
He was also known as "Filippo delle Prospettive". He also appears to confused with Giovanni Francesco Gagliardi.