sentences:  In 1878, he won a contest to paint the main Hall of the Finance Ministry, where he depicted an allegory of the "Unity of Italy with Illustrious Men of Past and Present".He lost a competition to Maccari to paint the So-called Yellow Hall of the Senate; Maccari went on to paint his masterpiece "Cicero Denounces Catiline".He painted frescoes for a number of Roman palaces including the Marignoli and Bobrinski.