This mosaic was modelled after the Libyan Sibyl painted by Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel around 1511. Iacopo completed the work after three years during which he devoted his attention to the colour and tone of each stone, to find the exact match to the painting.

Height 98 cm
Width 74 cm

Most of Bruno & Iacopo’s work is done using ancient techniques developed in Medicean times. After carefully selecting stones according to their tone and colours, they manually cut each stone into small pieces. The charm of this research is then translated into the final and is called “Florentine commesso”.

The masters of Florentine mosaic use mostly Tuscan, if not Florentine, stones for creating their masterpieces. The use of stones of Tuscan origin is another element explaining the charm emanating from a mosaic created with the authentic Florentine commesso technique.

Completed by Bruno Lastrucci, this mosaic expresses his long-lasting relationship with the world of classical mosaic and traditional subjects and demonstrates his excellent capacity of understanding the colour embedded in the stone.