Giandomenico Facchina

Giandomenico Facchina was an Italian mosaic artist of the 19th century who did much of his work in France.

Giandomenico Facchina was born in 1826 in Sequals, today in the province of Pordenone in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, at that time part of the LombardVenetian Kingdom. He was trained in Trieste and Venice. He first worked on the restoration of ancient mosaics, including the St Marks Basilica in Venice. In the 1850s he traveled to France, first to Montpellier, where he was called to work on the restoration of old floors.

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