an Italian painter, was born at Vilminore, in the territory of Bergamo, in 1714. He studied three years under Ferdinando Cairo of Brescia, and is said by Tassi to have been an artist of distinction. He died in 1775. Some of his most prominent paintings are to be found in the Church dei Miracoli at Brescia, viz., the Woman of Samaria: — Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican: — the Raising of Lazarus: — the Prodigal Son: — and the Good Shepherd.