 After moving to Turin in 1658 he decorated the royal hunting lodge at Venaria Reale with large-scale hunting scenes (portions of which are now lost).He painted more and more history paintings which demonstrate an intensification of the classical tendencies already present in the religious paintings of the 1650s.Miel also began to study and copy the works of Raphael and Annibale Carracci, just as he had copied the works of Pieter van Laer at the beginning of his career.