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

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).