 In Rome, he was favored with the patronage of Cardinal Chigi.Chigi employed him in several considerable works, and recommended him to the protection of Pope Clement XI, who not only commissioned him to paint one of the prophets in San Giovanni Laterano, but engaged him to decorate the cupola of the cathedral in Urbino.There he represented, in fresco, allegories of the four Quarters of the World, in which he displayed much invention and ingenuity.