He was briefly linked to a group of artists calling themselves the Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group of Obstinates); including Alberto Chiancone, Franco Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi Franco and Francesco Galante; meeting at the Caffè Tripoli at Piazza del Plebiscito; and urging the introduction of Modernist styles into the Neapolitan art circles.Galleria Cinquentisei , Bologna, short biography. By the 1920s under the influence of Futurism, he painted works such as "Musical Sensations (1923), and also painted works celebrating Fascist power and Mussolini, such as Victorious March. In the 1950s, he experimented with modernist, cubist canvases. Late in life, he decided to return to Cetona, still painting landscapes when he died.Fondazione Balestrieri, biography of artist.
