Born in Costalpino and first trained in Siena, he later worked in Rome and in Naples, where he died.
He was putatively a pupil of the painters Beccafumi and Daniele da Volterra.
The biographer Filippo Baldinucci also says he worked for Baldassare Peruzzi.
[1] Among his pupils in Messina was his son-in-law, Antonio Spanò.
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