He began his activity with Studio Cassio, a shop which has been active in the capital since 1800, specializes in Ravenna (School for the rest of the mosaic). He designs and implements numerous works for public and private clients.
He received a degree in Technologies for conservation of cultural heritage at University of Tuscia in Viterbo and in Conservation of mosaics at School of conservation of Mosaics in Ravenna. He received a degree in Archaeology at University of Molise.
Conservator specialized on ancient mosaics and sectilia with over 30 years of experience.
In 2001 starts to worked like a conservator at Opificio delle Pitre Dure di Firenze. In the last 20 years he works in Soprintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il Museo Nazionale Romano e l Area Archeologica di Roma, where he directs several conservation projects about mosaics, stones and sectilia.
He is a founding partner of AISCOM (Italian association of study and conservation of ancient mosaics) in which is a member of the board. He is also a member of board of ICCM (international committee of conservation of mosaics).
He is the foundator of Pictor Imaginarius Association with which he organizes in the last twelve years an international prize of contemporary mosaic, in Nazzano, a little village at north of Rome.
He is specialized on construction methodology of ancient mosaics and he wrote several papers about the argument. He teaches conservation of stones and mosaics at Central Restoration Institute in Rome and he teaches Organization of construction sites for restauration at University of Rome La Sapienza department of architecture.
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