The Vibrant Legacy of Cyrus Cuneo: A Life Captured in Motion Cyrus Cincinato Cuneo, known affectionately to many as Ciro, was an artist whose brief life served as a brilliant, flickering flame that illuminated the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in 1879 into a spirited Italian-American family of artists and musicians on the iconic Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, Cuneo’s very existence was steeped in cr…