sentences:  He initially apprenticed for four years with a mediocre painter by the name of Giovanni Battista Mercati (possibly the engraver), but he then trained in Rome under Anastasio Fuontebuoni.He returned to Florence to work with Domenico Passignani.He painted a "St Vincent Ferrer" for the church of San Marco, Florence; and an "Adoration of the Magi" for the church of the Carmine.