After studying Fine Arts in Bologna, Montevecchi taught in Imola for some time. He never quit the Academy’s rich milieux by attending courses and keeping in contacts with his colleagues for most of his life.

Owing to his troubled personal life he had to try his hand at several skills, depending on the clients’ requests, such as painting on ceramics, bas-rilief, interior decoration, poster designing, thus leaving aside portrait painting, in which is excelled thanks to his very elegant but incisive stroke