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A LARGE ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PANEL
Lot 115

A LARGE ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PANEL

BY LORENZO CASSIO, VATICAN MOSAIC STUDIO, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Fermé17 October 2017

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USD 50,000

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A LARGE ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PANEL
BY LORENZO CASSIO, VATICAN MOSAIC STUDIO, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Depicting the Madonna and Child after Raphael, set within a giltwood frame, the reverse with Vatican Mosaic Studio label and remnants of further Vatican price label
The mosaic: 46 ¼ x 39 ¼ in. (99.6 x 117.4 cm.)

Note du spécialiste

Lorenzo Cassio, the accomplished mosaicist of the present lot, was active at the Vatican Mosaic Studio during the second half of the 19th century. Though little is known of the artist's career, the archives of the Reverenda da Fabbrica di San Pietro, recorded a commission in 1877 to execute a large mosaic representing the Roman Forum (D. Petochi, I Mosaici Minuti Romani, Rome, 1981, p. 49).