Giovanni Battista Calandra was perhaps the greatest mosaic artist active in the early 1600s in Rome. Although he may have first studied painting in his native town, he moved to Rome after the death of his father in 1602 where he studied mosaic art with Marcello Provenzale. With the renewal of interest in Italian mosaics in the early 1600s, Provenzale worked as a restorer of ancient mosaics. He inv
