 Beginning in 1578 he painted a series of three altarpieces for churches in Volterra, including an (1580) and a (1585–86, Pinacoteca Civica).The 16th century Flemish biographer Karel van Mander who knew Candid when he visited Italy, recounted that Candid worked with Giorgio Vasari on the Sala Regia in the Vatican and on the cupola of the Florence Cathedral.After working in Rome at the Sala Regia in the years 1582 and 1583, he returned to Florence.