Lorenzo Cecconi

He preferred the tonal range of greens and grays, to represent the light effect, a little melancholy, of the rain and the overcast sky.

1890: at the International Exhibition of the City of Rome some works by Lorenzo Cecconi, including Verso sera (painting which is considered his masterpiece) and Returning from the country, are noted by Giovanni Costa (called Nino).

[2] While Cecconi was serving as curator of the Academy of Santa Luca, he called at the Grand Hotel and spent a considerable time minutely examining the Isleworth Mona Lisa, finding of the painting that "this is an original of Leonardo: the 'morbidezza', the condition of the 'crepatura' are unique and exactly equivalent to that of the Louvre example".

[3][4] The Nizam's Director of Archaeology obtained the services of Professor Lorenzo Cecconi, assisted by Count Orsini, to restore the paintings in the caves.

[5] The Director of Archaeology for the last Nizam of Hyderabad said of the work of Cecconi and Orsini: The repairs to the caves and the cleaning and conservation of the frescoes have been carried out on such sound principles and in such a scientific manner that these matchless monuments have found a fresh lease of life for at least a couple of centuries.