Career
He lived in the monastery attached to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Porto of Ravenna, where circa 1550 he painted a Saint Sebastian, and a Street Lawrence altarpiece for a chapel, a large canvas of the multiplication of the bread in the refectory and beautiful arabesques with a crucifixion in the ceiling of said refectory. In 1537 at Verdace for the church of San Giovanni, he painted a Madonna with Saints Augustine and John the Baptist. The background has a landscape and holy conversation.
In 1579, for the Church of Santa Maria della Passione in Milan, he painted a Jesus on the road to Calvary (Andata al Calvario).
The Museum of Padua has two canvases, originally found in the church of San Giovanni di Verdara, painted by Bagnara: Visitation (1537) and a Madonna. He signed his work with Orate Deum pro anima huyus pictoris.
