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

Cloister gallery

1205-41
Stone
San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome

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.