Career
Born to a comfortable merchant of wood in the Trentine valleys, he trained with a variety of local masters including Martino Gabrielli, but by the age of 12 years, he was sent to apprentice in Venice. In Venice, he stayed for five years. lieutenant is suspected that Valentino had contacts with the studio of Tiepolo.
By 1734, he was home in Moena, but returned to Venice from 1743 to circa 1752.
The second stay in Venice finds him frequently in the studio of Tiepolo. By 1758 he was residing there.
In 1759 he painted frescoes in Cembra, the first for the church of San Rocco no longer exist, but the curiously unthreatening Last Judgement frescoes in the church of San Pietro remain. He painted a series of frescoes (1767) for the parish church of Santa Lucia in Grumes.
In Cencenighe, he also painted some frescoes for the church.
In 1773, he painted the nave ceiling, depicting the Ascension of Christ. And for the apse, the Fall of Simon Magus and Conversion of Street Paul on the road to Damascus. He painted the main altarpiece of the church of San Vigilio with Saints Vigilio, Massenza, and John Nepomuk.
He painted canvases depicting the Martyrdom of Giovanni Bishop of Bergamo (1745) and the Miracle of Street Patrick of Ireland (1746) respectively for the Duomo of Bergamo and the church of San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua.
He painted a Resurrection of Lazarus in Moeni. He painted a series of frescoes in the nave of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Cavedine, depicting the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, the Four Evangelists, the Coronation of the Virgin, the Four Fathers of the Church, and the Martyrdom of Street Stephen and Lawrence.
The sacristy has a fresco of the Sacrifice of Isaac. Rovisi also painted numerous commissions for private houses, often votive facade frescoes and Via Crucis depictions for the churches of San Giovanni Battista in Canale d"Agordo, Santi Pietro e Paolo in Varena, San Vigilio in Moena, and the parish church of Torcegno., work completed in 1775 with daughter.
