Background
The son of a government official in Messina, Sicily, Scilla studied under Andrea Sacchi in Rome and became a painter.
The son of a government official in Messina, Sicily, Scilla studied under Andrea Sacchi in Rome and became a painter.
His frescos in Messina were painted for the church of San Domenico, and in the Nunziata de" Teatini, and many paintings including one of San Ilarione dying painted for the church of South. Ursula. His frescos in the Cathedral of Syracuse date from 1657. After participating in an unsuccessful revolt against Spanish rule, in 1678 he was exiled from Sicily.
Scilla worked as a painter in Turin and then Rome for the rest of his life.
He was a censor in the Academy of Design in Rome in 1695. One of his pupils was the painter Antonio Madiona.