Background
He was born in Bergamo to an artist father.
He was born in Bergamo to an artist father.
Initially he entered the studio of Giacomo Cotta, then Bartolomeo Bianchi, and finally the studio of Sebastiano Bombelli in Venice of the 1690s. He also reported trained with the German portrait artist Salomon Adler in Milan. He assumed the name of the saint for whom the monastery is named.
He is said to blend the attention to colorism and glamour that captivates Renaissance-Baroque portraiture of Venice, with the realism of Milanese art such as that of Moroni.
Among his pupils were Paolo Bonomino, Cesare Femi, and Pietro Gualdi (18th century painter). Giovanni and Servant (1711) Giovanni Portrait of Count Bartolomeo in Arms Portrait of Count Gerolamo Busts.
He was elected a member of the Milanese Accademia Clementina in 1717.