a reputable Italian historical painter, nephew of Giovanni Battista, was born at Bologna in 1664, and studied under his uncle, He died in 1734. He executed some pictures for the churches at Bologna, among which are St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, in San Sebastiano e Rocco and the Dead Christ with the Virgin and Mary Magdalen, in the Church of the Purita. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.