Beato Silenzio (Blessed Silence)

Insertion of murrines in the finishing of the mantle
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Beato Silenzio (Blessed Silence)
cm. 60x55 (23.6 x 21.7 in)
Byzantine technique
Direct method on provisional base
Materials: venetian smalti & gold, polychrome marbles
Work to be inserted into a gouache gold-leaf gilded frame.