chiaroscuro technique was developed at that time. He briefly worked with Pietro Nelli, who had also studied with Morandi. Most of his career was spent in Rome...

biography taken from Alberto Cottino, Guglielmo Caccia detto il Moncalvo - Un pittore del '600, 1997. Nuns by Silvia Evangelisti, pg 218 Italian women artists...

the portrait painters Giovanni Maria Morandi (1622–1717) and his pupil Pietro Nelli (1672–1740), under whose tutelage he learned the elements of design while...