In 1684 he was in charge of the restoration work of the Servitenkirche in Vienna.
From 1703 until his death, Martinelli participated in the construction of the Peterskirche in Vienna.
His most important work is the Palais Esterházy on Wallnerstraße in Vienna, which he first renovated in 1685 and thereafter completely rebuilt, finishing the work in 1695.
Both the ground-plan and the main façade of his building on seventeenth-century Jesuit churches.
Franz Martinelli died in Vienna on 28 October 1708.