Items Similar to View over the Piazza delle Erbe, Verona
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6
UnknownView over the Piazza delle Erbe, Veronac. 1880
c. 1880
About the Item
V. Florianello (19th century): View over the bustling Piazza delle Erbe with the city's inhabitants Verona marketplace, c. 1880, albumen paper print
Technique: albumen paper print
Inscription: Lower middle inscribed in the printing plate: "Piazza Erbe Magazzino Fotografie Arche Scaligere V. Florianello Verona".
Date: c. 1880
Description: The Piazza delle Erbe was the city's market and meeting place in ancient times and is still a lively square today. The elongated square is lined with richly decorated palazzo façades. The elevated camera viewpoint, presumably from a window, allows for a wide field of view that captures the passers-by in the street. Scattered across the square are standing and walking people and groups, predominantly men in hats and coats, some in uniform. Some of the people in the foreground look into the camera, waiting. Due to the cropped nature of the figures, it can be assumed that they were integrated into the picture afterwards. To depict the architecture of the city and to fill it with life seems to have been in the photographer's interest. Original photography with high sharpness of detail. An early testimony to travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from middle-class circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken with a great deal of time and expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site to bring back a souvenir from afar for those who stayed at home or to collect as souvenirs. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer or the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights of their home cities and went on journeys themselves to photograph the most popular destinations of their clients and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on tracings or engravings if they could not view the original for themselves.
Keywords: Italy view, documentary photography, architectural photography, travel photography, marketplace, palazzo, St. Mark's lions, Madonna Verona, city dwellers, city life, 19th century, Historicism, Cities, Italy,
- Creation Year:c. 1880
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.3 cm)Width: 10.08 in (25.6 cm)
- Period:
- Condition:Good condition. Slightly discoloured due to age. Corners of the sheet are bent due to mounting. Small spots in the centre of the sheet margin on the left and right.
- Gallery Location:Frankfurt am Main, DE
- Reference Number:
About the Seller
No Reviews Yet
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 1982
1stDibs seller since 2023
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 30 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Arch of Vinegar at the Marina, NeapelBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century): Houses around the Arco dell Aceto at the harbour City view of Naples with the Neapolitans on the street, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: alb...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
- Strada di Santa Lucia, NeapelBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century): Lively street scene with passers-by, carriages and drying laundry on linen Strada di Santa Lucia, today Via Santa Lucia with view of the Pizzofalcone...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
- Waterfalls v. TivoliBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century) Circle: View of the spectacular gigantic waterfalls of Tivoli at the Villa Gregoriana, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, m...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
- Vesuvius. Vast lava rock landscapeBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century): Wide lava rock landscape with posing person Vesuvius, Campania, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print Inscription: Lower midd...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
- Coast on the Gulf of NaplesBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century): Panoramic view with pine tree from Villa Patrizi on the coast of Naples, the sea and Visuv in the distance, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: ...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
- Panorama with road to VesuviusBy Fratelli AlinariLocated in Frankfurt am Main, DEFratelli Alinari (19th century): Landscape panorama with the road leading to Vesuvius, Campania, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print Inscription: Lower midd...Category
19th Century Landscape Photography
You May Also Like
- AS FAR AS A VIEW - Folded Tapestry Collage of Scenic Landscapes w/ Palm TreesLocated in Signal Mountain, TNAS FAR AS A VIEW, is part of a series of works that consider the decorative and escapist role of the landscape in the home. When seeking beauty in the world to distract us, delight us, and bring us into our own world, we seek something that stirs within us a memory or a dream. Traditionally, tapestries are a storytelling media as well as décor. This particular work is constructed from commercially printed tapestries acquired from a Chinese supplier during the pandemic. These tell a story of arrested, yet ample, desire. On one side of the piece we see a sunrise from a beach with palm trees. Gently folded over to the right is a second tapestry. In this the artist has chose to expose the desaturated backside which obscures slightly the third tapestry landscape of beach scene around midday. It brings to mind the passage of time much like time lapse photography...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
MaterialsTapestry
- AS FAR AS A VISTA - Folded Tapestry - Dual Landscape PhotographyLocated in Signal Mountain, TNAS FAR AS A VISTA, is part of a series of works that consider the decorative and escapist role of the landscape in the home. When seeking beauty in the world to distract us, delight ...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
MaterialsTapestry, Ink
- Palazzo del Quirinale Salone dei CorazzieriBy Massimo ListriLocated in New York, NYPalazzo del Quirinale Salone dei Corazzieri 2015 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Biblioteca di Mafra I PortogalloBy Massimo ListriLocated in New York, NYBiblioteca di Mafra I Portogallo, 2015 C-print Signed, numbered and dated on verso 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches edition of...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- New York City, after George Bellows (Pictures of Magazines 2)Located in New York, NYNew York City, after George Bellows (Pictures of Magazines 2)Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Triptych Turquoise - Underwater World in Nuances of Blue - Abstract SeascapesBy Paul-Émile RiouxLocated in Miami, FLArchival photo print under acrylic glass. Three prints, 3 x 48x48" (each) Signed & Numbered by the artist Edition of 3 Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, C...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, Archival Pigment
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Delle Site
Antique Camera Art
Antique Century Camera
Unknown Italian Landscape 19th Century
Men Walking
Antique Men Hats
Souvenir Plate
Antique Picture Art Collectibles
Antique Marketplace
19Th Century Antique Cameras
Walking Lion
Antique Windows Art Collectibles
Standing Lions Sculptures
Antique Still Life Photography
Antique Plate Cameras
St Mark Lion
19th Century Mens Hats
19th Century Coat Men