 He died in Perugia.He was a close friend of Anton Raphael Mengs.He is said to have played a role in 1754, while magistrate of the Camerlengo along with Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga and the painter Francesco Mancini (the then-Principe of the Academy of St Luke) in establishing an Accademia del Nudo inside the Vatican under the protection of Cardinal Girolamo Colonna during the papacy of Benedict XIV.