Italian painter, born at Camerino, Italy, in May 1625. He was a pupil of Andrea Sacchi, a student and follower of Raphael, and a painter whose work was much admired in his day. He first attracted attention by a Nativity (1650). He was in the employ of several popes, from Alexander VII. to Clement XI., who made him a knight of the Order of Christ; and he was painter-ordinary to Louis XIV. He restored the Raphael frescoes in the Vatican and in the Famesina; did some fresco work of his own; and painted many Madonnas. His best works are St. Carlo, in the church of that name in Rome, and the Baptism of Jesus Christ, at the Certosa. He was the last of the Roman school, and died in 1713.
