VASSALLETTO, marble worker family
(active 12th-14th centuries in Rome)

Detail of a twisted column

1215-32
Stone
San Giovanni Laterano, Rome

The cloister of the Lateran Palace was constructed between 1215 and 1232 by the Vassalletto family (father and son). Some of the arcades are supported by variously twisted coupled columns which are frequently covered with delicate mosaics.