Antonio Cassio was born in Rome,
on October 24th, 1931. When he was still a teen-ager, his father,
Lorenzo, who has been working in the “Mosaic Studio”
of Vatican City for 40 years, started him off on studying and
learning the mosaic art.
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In the early 50s, Antonio and his brother Fabrizio work on the mosaics of the altar piece and floor of the cloister and crypt of the North American College on Gianicolo in Rome, Italy. Such mosaics were based on the Accademico d’Italia Pietro Gaudenzi’s cartoon. In the years 1956-57 he works on the mosaic of the Chiesa del Preziosissimo Sangue in Detroit. In 1958 the US Government commit to him the realisation of the mosaic decorations of the American War Cemeteries in Florence (Italy), Manila (Philippines), Belgium and Louxembourg, based on popular American painters’ cartoons. In 1964 works on the mosaic cover of the St. Fancis Hospital Chapel in Wichita, Kansas (USA) and, two years later, on the Via Crucis of the St. Stanislaos Church, sited near Milwuakee, Visconsin (USA). |
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| In 1967 makes new mosaics for the Montecassino Abbey, restoring all the other damaged during World War II. In 1985, the Ente Provinciale per il Turismo (Toursim Organisation) of Naples commits to him the mosaic flooring for the Memorial John Lennon in Central Park, New York. Antonio has been teaching “Technic of Restoration” at the Central Institute for Restoration in Rome, Italy, from the end of the 60s to 1995. In the early 70s starts also his sons off on this gentle art. They are still devoted to the art and cooperate to the realisation of mosaic of various dimensions, together with able cooperators. |
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Moreover, in Antonio Cassio’s
Artistic Mosaic Workshop, only the technic used for the famous ancient
mosaics is adopted, as well as materials as precious as the ancient.
Such materials are provided by the old firm A. Orsoni, sited in Venice,
Italy, that has produced glazes and gold for mosaics since 1888.
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