 In that town, he apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Trotti (known as "il Malosso").Afterwards he moved to Milan, where fresco church ceilings, and painted altarpieces and still lifes.One of his few documented still lifes depict a bowl of peaches, and recalls the near-contemporary paintings of fruit bowls in Milan, including the 1594-98 painting in the Ambrosiana by Caravaggio and similarly themed paintings by Fede Galizia.