Visentini was an architect, draughtsman and engraver who worked extensively for Consul Smith and designed the façade of his palace of the Grand Canal. The finest group of drawings by him, formerly in the collection of Smith, are at Windsor, A. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1957, nos. 428-575