 As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to Domenichino, with whom he traveled to Naples in 1634.He is best known for his expansive panegyric ceiling fresco, "Apotheosis of Pamphili House" (1667-1673) in the library of Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona in Rome.During 1658 to 1659, he frescoed the "Stanza del Fuoco" in Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone, working alongside Pier Francesco Mola, Gaspar Dughet, Mattia Preti, Giovanni Battista Tassi ("il Cortonese"), and Guglielmo Cortese.