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Grand Tour Souvenir album of Rome

Door Giacomo Brogi

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#416746-ME5
Titel
Grand Tour Souvenir album of Rome
Auteur
Brogi, Giacomo (photographs)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Rome
Jaar van uitgave
circa 1890
Taal
Italiaans
Beschrijving
Beautiful souvenir album, quarto oblong in gilt tooled decorated vellum binding (26,5 x 36,5 cm) with red painted edges, published in Rome, circa 1885-1895. Album with 81 large albumen photographs by Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881), Giacomo Brogi approximately 20 x 25 cm, laid-down on cardboards, with numbering and subscripts in the original photo’s (from different series). Exceptional fine copy. The binding is remarkably clean and intact; the photographs show excellent contrast, deep tones, and no significant foxing or fading. With 81 views of Rome, including a panoramic view from St. Peters Basilica, St. Peter's Square, the Vatican Library and other monuments and sculptures of the Vatican, the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran, Basilica of Saint Mary the Great, Tivoli and many other views on historical sites in Rome, monuments, sculptures and archeological sites. Some of the highlights: Plate No. 1: Roma - Panorama dalla cupola di S. Pietro (The iconic opening panorama); Plate No. 162: Augusto - Museo Vaticano (Classic study of the Augustus of Prima Porta); Plate No. 347: Tivoli - Veduta generale della cascata dell'Aniene; Plate No. 357: Roma - Tomba di Cecilia Metella. Studio Brogi (Florence and Rome) could be identified by negative numbering and characteristic white titles. The numbers on the photographs correspond with the catalogue of the firm, containing a large number of photographs. Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881) was an important Italian photographer. He started his career around 1856 and founded his own company in 1864: Edizioni Brogi Firenze. He specialized in portraiture and later in photographs of works of art, in particular in the reproduction of sculpture and in panoramas. Although the main photographic atelier of the firm was established in Venice, the Brodi Company had a prominent shop in Rome at the Via del Corso number 419. It was located close to the Spanish Stairs and the Piazza del Popolo, right in the middle of the touristic city center. That is where they sold souvenir albums like these in various sizes and prices. The firm kept on selling souvenir albums after the death of their founder in 1881. This luxurious ‘Grand Horizon’ edition in vellum binding was curated for high-end 19th-century European travelers visiting Rome.
Pagina's
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Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 1.250,00

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