While he had been offered a teaching post in Urbino, he began decorating a private house, for a counterfeiter of money, thus Bellandi's wages were without value.
In the summer of 1873, he went in Lower Austria, where he painted six large frescos, well regarded, but which were lost to inclemency and the site.
It appears that local newspapers questioned the quality of the work, to Bellandi's embarrassment, but a subsequent inquest cleared his name.
In some frames were written the verse of Ariosto, and strong feminine characters from various novels like Lucia from Manzoni, Thecla from Schiller's Wallenstein Trilogy; Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, by Victor Hugo, and the Ines of Camoens.
Bellandi painted two large allegorical figures, and in the distance, the construction of an iron ship and the swarm of workers illustrating the motto: In labore virtus.