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The mosaics of Pirro

Marcello Pirro’s mosaic panels on the brick wall of the campiello
Marcello Pirro’s mosaic panels on the brick wall of the campiello Photo: Lothar John, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

In this campiello (a small square) an open-air gallery was meant to be born. A mosaic by Pirro, one by Guidi, one by Vedova, one by Ortega: four artists, a model to be repeated later in other campi of the city. Only the first arrived, and it has stayed there ever since.

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