 In 1888 he received a gold medal at the Academy.Like many of his contemporaries, including some of his teachers, he was involved in the effort to renew the Academy's teaching methods, deemed obsolete and was among the creators of the short-lived "Ateliê Livre", together with professors João Zeferino of Costa, Rodolfo Amoedo, Henrique Bernardelli and Rodolpho Bernardelli.Thanks to a prize received in 1892, Visconti travelled to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux Arts the following year.