Agostino Comerio

Under the patronage of Cardinal Dugnani, he stayed in Rome in 1803–1805 to study painting; in 1805 he won the first prize in the Accademia del Campidoglio, which was then led by Antonio Canova.

He was recruited to Mantua as a designer of the works of Giulio by the philanthropic committee established by Count Miollis, including models for a large bronze sculpture for St. Andrew, never cast.

He engraved Brusasorci's Cavalcade of Clement VII and Charles V. He continued to receive commissions in Vicenza, Milan, and Lombardy.

In 1827, he was appointed professor of figural elements at the Accademia Braidense, replacing Domenico Aspari; in the following year he made studies of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper.

Despite developing cardiac dropsy, he began designs and frescoes for the cupola of the Pellegrino Tibaldi church of San Sebastiano in Milan.