After he studied in Lyceum, after 1889 he joined the studios of
Antonio Mancini in Rome and
Domenico Morelli in
Naples. After a visit to Spain in 1901, he painted local folk subjects from
Abruzzo (1904) and
Sardinia (1908). At the 1903
Venice Biennale, he displayed his
divisionist works with an attention to social topics, alongside
Giacomo Balla,
Enrico Lionne, and
Arturo Noci. After 1906 he began to focus on painting mainly feminine figures. He was named academic at the
Academy of St Luke, and in 1912 he joined the
Secessione Romana. He later traveled to
Paris and
Monaco. ==References==