Italian painter. He studied first with the painter Sebastiano Galeotti (1676-1741) in Florence, then with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. He was one of the most active fresco painters of his time. In 1742 he was commissioned by Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, the last Medici resident of the Pitti Palace, to fresco the cupola of the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence with the Glory of Florentine Saints. He executed frescoes, among others, in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence (1746-48), in the Santa Verdiana (1747-51) in Florence, in the cathedral of Pistoia, in the Archbishop's Palace of Siena, in the library of Palazzo Corsini, in Rome (1748). //