Giulio Cesare Procaccini came from a family of artists and began his training in the workshop of his father Ercole and his brother Camillo in Bologna. In 1587, the entire family moved to Milan, where Giulio Cesare began to study under the sculptor Francesco Brambilla. Together with his brother and Brambilla, he worked on sculptures for an altar in Milan Cathedral. From 1597 to 1602, he made two marble reliefs for the façade of the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso, which are still to be seen there. For the cathedral in Cremona, he produced two sculptures. From 1600, he concentrated on painting and executed numerous religious subjects for churches in Milan. At the invitation of a noble art collector, Procaccini stayed in Genoa from 1618 to 1620, where some of his works are still on display. The roots of Procaccini's style are in Mannerism, but it already reveals features of the Baroque.