 His 1565 painting, "Birth of the Virgin", recalls the canvas of Andrea del Sarto.He painted large altarpieces for the Certosa of Ferrara, "Vision of Saint Paul" for Massa Lombarda, and "Madonna and Child with Saints and Patrons" in Rovigo in 1565.He painted a fresco of "Last Judgment", highly imitative of Michelangelo, for both the carthusian church St. Christophorus (1578) and for the apse roof of Ferrara Cathedral (1577–1581).