He was supported by the Count Leopoldo Ferri in this regard, and was able to meet the art critic Pietro Selvatica.
[2] After early works of genre painting, he developed a personal approach aimed at expressing the range of human feelings through intense female figures.
At the National Exposition of Venice, he displayed a pastel portrait; In Pescheria; and a painting titled Frons Animi Interpres.
[3] A paraphrase of Luigi Chirtani's comments notes: Women kneeling in pews, one likely young, a hiding face in praying hands, the other old, sits next with reckless and provocative expression.
A highly respected decorator and architect, he designed the new fish market at the Rialto, inaugurated in 1908, and produced some of the sculptural elements himself.