# Cloister gallery

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VASSALLETTO, marble worker family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vassalletto-marble-worker-family-re272668d7d6610>)
- Date: 1201-1250
- Technique: Stone

## Commentary

The best preserved and most important Romanesque cloisters in Rome, those of San Giovanni in Laterano and San Paolo fuori le mura, were built in the first half of the thirteenth century by the Vassalletto family. The latter is smaller but its columns is even more lavishly decorated with mosaics.

## Related artworks

- [Cloister gallery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vassalletto-marble-worker-family-re272668d7d6610/cloister-gallery-r5ccc1548ff2cec>)
- [Cloister gallery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vassalletto-marble-worker-family-re272668d7d6610/cloister-gallery-r9e1b6a6d45f564>)
- [Cloister gallery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vassalletto-marble-worker-family-re272668d7d6610/cloister-gallery-re3f53e6b510499>)
- [Detail of a twisted column](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vassalletto-marble-worker-family-re272668d7d6610/detail-of-a-twisted-column-r0c597be5c41e9b>)

## Attribution

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